如何阅读文献

根据明尼苏达大学化学学院Carr教授的建议整理而来，助你更好，更科学地阅读文献。

How to read literature resources

How to "Survey" the article?

Read the keywords and title

These are probably what got you to look at the paper

Read the abstract

Read the conclusions

Feel free to stop reading the article at any point

How to read the article?

Look at the tables and figures (including captions)

This is really what was done in the work. This does not take much time, so it is worth looking at before really getting into details which will slow down the reading.

Read the introduction

This is the background needed and why the study was done.

Read the results and discussion

This is the heart of the paper.

Read the experiment

This is how they did the work. you only get to this point if you are really interested and need to understand exactly what was done to better understand the meaning of the data and its interpretation.

Take notes

Write some notes so you don’t have to reread the whole paper again

Notes should be systematic and easy to be searched (such as Mind Map, cards).

Time

Take 30 seconds or several minutes to survey a paper.

If you are really interested in a paper, you can take several hours, the most part of a day, or even several days to read it carefully.

Note: conclude according to the suggestions of Prof. Carr from University of Minnesota