Research is an field not many people pursue in their until M.Tech, M.Phil or Ph.D. So it is difficult for beginner to find the starting point for research. Research is more about an systematic study of any topic. It starts with reading research papers.

What is Research Paper

Research papers are the articles published in Journal or conferences. Research papers can be written by professor, scientists, research scholars. Research paper is also termed as articles, manuscript, publication or simply paper.

How to Find your first research paper

First step towards research is to start reading other's articles.

There are multiple ways to find this starting point.

 1. Go to Google Scholar and search for any keywords of your interest area. Now readout the papers listed there and find niche of your research.

 2. Go to website of any college or university and find professors in your subject area and search their name in Google scholar, ResearchGate to find their publication profiles or research papers directly.

 3. Most of good books contains a reference section is end of the book, there you will find lots of research papers which are referred by author of the book.

 4. Get one research paper from any friend in your field, each research paper contains reference section in the last which give you option to explore further. Then there is no end, because one paper will lead to other and other lead to next and so on, the chain reaction will begin.

What to look for in Research Paper

Each research paper is attributed towards some problem or research gap. Research papers help you setup your knowledge about an particular topic in detail and what other research researcher have published recently, so you can keep your updated with new ideas, solution and techniques being developed in your subject area.

Once you know your surrounding, you can find the problems or gap that exist in the filed and start proposing your solution and publish to journal and conference you studied during the paper reading journey.

Every paper will give you knowledge about the journal in which it is published.

So with every new reading, your knowledge will increase.

How to write your research paper

Once you have read many papers, you already know in which journal you want to publish and what is the structure of paper. You just need to give shape to your finding as per journal requirements and reviewer's comments.

What are Reviewer's comment

Each paper submitted to a journal or conference is reviewed by the subject experts and other researchers in your area. Reviewer's provide a feedback on the work presented in the research paper in form of comments to author. These comments and suggestion need to be incorporated in the article and resubmit to publisher (journal or conference).

Once the reviewer and editor of the journal or conference is satisfied, your paper will be published.

Have a Happy Research.