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In this video, Tahir Yaqub explains five things that a PhD student should do early in their PhD. If you have recently started a PhD or thinking to start a PhD degree in any discipline this video is useful for you. I (Tahir Yaqub) did my PhD in 2008 from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I got many scholarships throughout my career. I make videos about PhD students, about the LaTeX document preparation system, about technology tools for students and teachers.
The video explains the importance of having a research diary, Why students should build a file of all the references and citations of the papers they read during their PhD.
It is also explained in this video how to find the top researchers in your field of research. Also how to find not only the top journals in your field but also the journals where you could be able to publish your research work. The video also explains how to find a good journal for publishing the research. The journals have a metric called Impact factor and students should know how to take advantage of this Impact factor and select a journal that might accept their papers. The video suggests that the impact factor range of 0.2 to 5 is good to target journals during your PhD.
This video also explains how to make a BibTeX or bib file for the references of research papers you use. Also how to add entries into a BibTex file after downloading from the research paper databases.
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[@rominaderugeriis6573]

I believe genuinely that you gave amazing advices in here, love them all! I have really appreciated them, new subscriber in here!

[@digitidea]

Thanks Romina for the kind words and welcome to my channel

[@JJGhostHunters]

I could not agree more! I found a few videos first on Amazon Prime and now found this channel! It is helping me stay grounded in fundamentals needed to keep making progress in my PhD studies!

[@digitidea]

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[@JJGhostHunters]

@@digitidea You are very welcome sir! Yes, you should upload more, because my university and perhaps others offer Amazon Prime to students. Those students like me would benefit greatly from your videos!
I am going to be going through your LATEX courses soon to help with my PhD dissertation writing. I will also be obtaining your Diary to help stay organized.
Thank you for the great videos!

[@digitidea]

@@JJGhostHunters Thank you. I did not know this that Universities offer this I stopped uploading on Amazon because i thought Educational videos are "not" a good fit with Hollywood movies! But thanks again for explaining.....

[@liya8438]

Thank you so much I have just enrolled into my PhD and this is very helpful, learning latex now. New subscriber !!

[@digitidea]

Thanks leah

[@shwetaredkar734]

very helpful video. Thanks a lot!

[@digitidea]

Thanks shweta at least someone appreciated. You are the first to comment about my video....

[@HasanFerdous07]

Thank you, Dr. Yaqub. As a fresh Ph.D. student, I am getting precious advice and a roadmap from your videos. Keep up the good works amidst your busy schedule!

[@digitidea]

My pleasure

[@deepaknirmal4506]

Thank you dear Sir...I have just entered into phd journey..
I will definitely follow your suggestions......💐

[@digitidea]

All the best

[@biabolada]

I'm not a phd student, but I loved your suggestions. Thanks! Now I need to learn how to use LaTex

[@digitidea]

Glad it was helpful!

[@munabitali]

Thanks Dr. Yaqub. it's a very informative video. I'm just starting my Ph.D. I'll follow your tips, starting by download LaTex.

[@digitidea]

Thanks Muna

[@erandau]

Highly informative video on PhD study. Thank you very much Dr Tahir for sharing your valuable insight with early career researchers like us.

[@digitidea]

Glad to hear that it helped thanks for watching

[@madnan9268]

In love with your teaching style ♥️ very helpful...

[@digitidea]

Thanks Adnan

[@poojaswami07]

Very helpful video sir.. Thank you so much.

[@digitidea]

glad it was helpful

[@SANJAYSHARMA-hb6bf]

I am a new guy to research, really helpful suggestions. Now I am going to have a better completion of my Ph. D.

[@digitidea]

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[@snehalahire5104]

Thank you.. valuable information

[@digitidea]

Hi Snehal Thanks for the feedback. I am glad you found it useful.

[@HawreKoyi1]

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[@digitidea]

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[@humasikandar]

Very informative....new subscriber!!!

[@digitidea]

Thanks & welcome....

[@sreekanthscd]

Nice information for the research scholars.

[@digitidea]

Thanks for watching

[@iliyawho5516]

sir great advices, thank you!

[@digitidea]

Thanks

[@bhumibhatt7560]

A very informative video. Thank you very much Sir.

[@digitidea]

I am glad you liked

[@ananddandge7925]

Very nice information you shared 🙏 Thank you sir

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[@fahdalabrah3776]

You are a great person who supports the important field in the Human life, Academia'''''''''

[@digitidea]

Nice to hear that thanks for the compliment

[@alameen3480]

Thank you sir. Your videos are really helpful.

[@digitidea]

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very very useful. thank you

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[@fundamentalslearner7460]

Dear Sir,Your information is highly valuable and useful to me

[@digitidea]

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[@techtimes1985]

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[@digitidea]

Many Thanks

[@truthalwaysrise2282]

very helpful for beginning

[@digitidea]

Thanks Rajesh. Stay connected.

[@TheMISBlog]

Very useful video thanks

[@digitidea]

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[@youtubehero4442]

thank you Sir, really appreciate your efforts

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[@sufirabia4051]

Wow.. Tku soo muchh sir

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Welcome...to my channel

[@mazharmuhammadkhan3046]

Sir, Your advices are precious for all Mathematics Teachers like me

[@digitidea]

Thanks so nice of you

[@studywithunicorn5587]

Thank you professor ❤

[@digitidea]

You are very welcome

[@nemoadee6058]

Amazing video sir keep up the good work. Please make video for finding good journals and to avoid fake journals also how to increase chance of publication in good journals.

[@digitidea]

will see

[@abhilashthanneru3331]

Thanks sir. Nice information

[@digitidea]

You are welcome Abhilash

[@anamijaz5719]

Sir plzzz share how to make a report I mean report writing??????

[@MAHESH-bu4ll]

Thank u sir really helpful video as I am thinking of doing my ph.d

[@digitidea]

All the best

[@angajs]

I love this Phd series

[@digitidea]

Thanks

[@shivaniagarwal4342]

Amazing tips for aspiring PhD candidates , as I'm one of them and recently I got selected for my PhD program. Thankyou so much Sir for enlightening us. I am your new subscriber . 🙏🙏🙏

[@digitidea]

Thanks Agarwal welcome to my channel. I am glad you liked..There is a playlist named "PhD" but many other videos not included in that so please search on my channel.

[@shivaniagarwal4342]

@@digitidea Thanks for advising sir 🙏

[@rupanshipruthi1293]

Very useful sir

[@digitidea]

Glad it helped

[@Mithrapraba]

I'm new to your channel sir.,
Very usefull sir

[@digitidea]

Thanks and welcome

[@taranaferdous1427]

Great video and advices from your life experiences. I really appreciate it and subscribed to your channel. I am glad I have learnt something new today. I hope to start my PhD from fall 2021 (if everything goes alright, InsaAllah) and would try to learn Latex before I start it.
I have a question, is this software free to download? I am looking forward to leaning this from your other videos. Thanks.

[@digitidea]

Awesome, thank you! Yes its free. Watch my playlists on latex

[@universitystudyguide6617]

very helpful video

[@digitidea]

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[@biswaranjanmohanty7298]

thanks for the useful video.Kindly provide a video on how to do a successful postdoc

[@digitidea]

Thanks Biswaranjan stay connected. have you subscribed

[@rahuljoshi7533]

Thanks for making such a useful video Sir. I hope to receive more useful videos in future also.

[@digitidea]

Welcome Rahul stay connected. Have you subscribed?

[@rahuljoshi7533]

@@digitidea yes i subscribed

[@digitidea]

Thanks Rahul next Friday 7:00 PM I will post a video on "5 Myths about PhD thesis and what is the Reality" . You are the first who knows this so please watch it full.

[@rahuljoshi7533]

@@digitidea sure i will watch it. Thanks for your kindness.

[@digitidea]

sorry it will be on Friday 02-08-2019 not Friday 26th

[@ayashasiddika]

Very useful

[@digitidea]

Thanks a lot

[@govindarajulu5285]

Its true, I too focused more on conferences instead of journals and my guide forced me to attend conference/workshops than the Journal.

[@digitidea]

One would expect it...

[@chahmadabdullah]

Great video

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Thanks Please consider subscribing

[@Gypxy_moth]

Thank you Sir

[@digitidea]

I am glad you liked Samrat

[@anbu4707]

I am in middle of my phd, I will try your idea, seems very good

[@digitidea]

Thanks An. Stay connected. Have you subscribed?

[@anbu4707]

Yes

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@@anbu4707 Thanks

[@hussam384]

Impressive

[@digitidea]

Thanks

[@mohsin0608]

Hello, can you do a video on selecting the right journal to publish your research papers and all the different types of research journals.... Thanks!

[@digitidea]

Noted will try

[@sanairfankhan9188]

thank you so much, sir, the video has helped a lot, but I don't understand the last point of journal .please explain more.

[@digitidea]

Either watch again or ask a question What is your question?

[@irantharathnayake8671]

Thank you very much sir. I need guidance for find journals and reseaches related to Agronomy

[@digitidea]

Irantha...Thanks for watching but I have no idea about your field.....

[@irantharathnayake8671]

@@digitidea Thank you very much sir. I think anyone can help after seen this

[@samraharif7510]

1. Diary ( not started)
2. Latex ( using it , its kind of a best friend in PhD)
3. References (Using Latex)
4. Tòp Researchers ( Following )
5. Journal ( Following)

[@digitidea]

You are on a right track

[@nupatowoch3063]

awesome

[@digitidea]

Thanks

[@mohamednawzernazier5532]

Doctor pls upolad a video how to write letrature review for explorotry research proposal.it ll be very helpful

[@digitidea]

It is already on my channel "How to write a Research proposal"

[@rafsanjanimuhammod309]

I could not entirely agree with you about the statement of the conference publication.
There are many excellent conferences in machine learning, and robotics such as ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS/NIPS, CVPR, AAAI, Conference on Robot Learning, are some time consider more than (a good) publication.

[@digitidea]

Dear Rafsanjani You are entitled to your own opinion which i respect but i still stick to my statement. "If" you change your mind please drop me a line..On a side note my field is Robotics....

[@rafsanjanimuhammod309]

@@digitidea Dear Sir,
Yes, you're also right, and your statement is general purpose true.

[@digitidea]

@@rafsanjanimuhammod309 Have a Nice day

[@sukhendrasingh]

Sir, You said about not wasting time and effort in papers in conferences,what about if papers presented in conferences are published in Scopus indexed journals??

[@digitidea]

Then its Ok Sukhendra but not too many

[@khankarak598]

excellent

[@digitidea]

Thanks! There is a playlist called "PhD" that might as well be good for you!

[@khankarak598]

Sir,how can i might find this playlist?

[@digitidea]

@@khankarak598 czcams.com/play/PL5Q4xJ4bbfxUCXflbDi9OgP61Dj67tNH2.html

[@SohelRana-vn3qi]

Sir make video on mendle for referencing

[@digitidea]

I have lost interest in creating content for PhD students but will see

[@MdAthick]

Dear Sir, I am a first-year Ph.D. student, started recently my course work. Fortunately, I came across your channel. The contents are guiding me a lot. Thank you very much.
There are many latex software, which one should I use?

[@digitidea]

Thanks for the appreciation. I am glad it helped. Use MikTex+ texmaker

[@madnan9268]

Sir kindly make a Video on how to write a literature review paper

[@digitidea]

Sure Adnan I will

[@Consentric]

Such a Informative Video Sir !! HOW to make that Impact Factor List to find about Oscilating IF ?

[@digitidea]

Pdf will show you if of 3 years

[@Consentric]

@@digitidea Sir where to Find the PDF of Impact Factors ?

[@Consentric]

@@digitidea And Sir , Have you closed your Latex Course. Its written closed on your Website

[@NAA077]

Ur channel will be my guide during the coming years.
I have a question,
is it possible for non-engineering students to do their phd in engineering major? Wt would be the expected difficulties?

[@digitidea]

Thanks and glad to help yes there will be difficulties until you have many years of experience and you have excellent reading comprehension

[@samraharif7510]

I am a new mum and its my first year of PhD. Can you provide some tips to manage the first year efficiently.

[@digitidea]

My channel has nearly 30 videos for PhD students. All these are in a playlist called PhD. Students have watched those many times to digest the content. I hope you will find them useful. This is my help.....Most are for new PhD students

[@satyakamsir3638]

How do you evaluate a paper in the diary?I understand conference paper have low values and journal papers with my current research work will be high but in between that is difficult? And if you can tell why the numbers were fluctuating in your diary will be more helpful.

[@digitidea]

Which numbers?

[@satyakamsir3638]

@@digitidea the ratings you deciding for papers

[@digitidea]

@@satyakamsir3638 I am not deciding any rating. Those are Impact Factors

[@santoshir5097]

Not getting citation sir as I have tried as you suggested

[@digitidea]

Santoshi can you explain what do you mean by this?

[@madhurikumari5609]

Very effective information sir..thanks to share with us..how could i buy latex ?

[@digitidea]

Hello Madhuri Thanks and Latex is free however if you want training on Latex then see the description of my video, most videos have links to my courses

[@madhurikumari5609]

@@digitidea thanks to reply..

[@digitidea]

@@madhurikumari5609 you are welcome

[@Juststudyhard623]

Seems that you have done your PHD in computer science. Any suggestions what should I do after MSCIT .

[@digitidea]

There are many options depend what you want to achieve!

[@MdAthick]

Dear Sir, are there any additional scholarships to the students to those who are already in the mid of PhD?

[@digitidea]

There are grants to attend conferences and thesis expenses but mostly from your own universitiy

[@abhijeetsingh1306]

hello sir, I am in my 11th month of Ph.D. Do you think it's late if I start following your advice?

[@digitidea]

Not at all

[@vijetasingh9746]

sir i had a question .is mendeley better for managing our refrences?is it a better option than latex??????

[@digitidea]

Latex and i am showing you the complete process in an upcoming video in few days

[@vijetasingh9746]

@@digitidea sir whenever u will make the video plz compare latex n mendeley merit n demerits along with the explanation

[@digitidea]

@@vijetasingh9746 I do not use Mendeley

[@vijetasingh9746]

@@digitidea ok

[@imdadmarwat3452]

sir, what is the overage limit for phd students?

[@digitidea]

no limit

[@fundamentalslearner7460]

Dear sir,Is latex open source

[@digitidea]

Yes

[@janakidevi9177]

I am struggling how to write a paper sir? How can I come out from this situation sir?

[@digitidea]

There are at least 3 videos explaining how to understand and write papers ... watch the playlist called "PhD" on my channel

[@janakidevi9177]

Thank you sir

[@AsrifYusoff]

Great content and subscribed! Would love hear what you think of our grad school channel. Thank you.

[@digitidea]

Thanks...Have looked at your channel...Make a theme (the narrow the better)...and stick to it...

[@imdadmarwat3452]

sir phd ke bad kia overage relaxation milta han?

[@digitidea]

no limit on age for phd

[@UmairKhan-hx9xw]

sir how much average take a time to prepare a Phd theises

[@digitidea]

If you start writing early then 9 months in your final year would be enough

[@UmairKhan-hx9xw]

Thank you sir

[@saadiyakhan1955]

Assalam alaikum
Mujhy aap sy baat krni h

[@digitidea]

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[@saadiyakhan1955]

@@digitidea ok

[@jonetyson]

Coding LaTeX by hand is a waste of time. Scientific word is free now, and it will generate LaTeX for you.