How to evaluate the scientific paper: Overview Significance and originality Technical Soundness Related Work Readability

1. How to evaluate the Scientific Paper?
(Paper as Example)
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2. Outline
 Overview
 Significance and originality
 Technical Soundness
 Related Work
 Readability
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3. Overview
 What's the paper all about?
 Social Network Security,
 Harvesting data from Social Network by (Social
Snapshots tools).
 What are the key contributions?
 Build Social Snapshots tool.
 What's the main message?
 The possibility of penetrating the social network.
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4. Significance and originality
 Are the ideas novel/original?
 Novel method for harvesting data from SN (Social
Snapshots tool).
 Are the contributions significant?
 Yes, significant for security research and in the
filed of digital forensics.
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5. Technical Soundness
 Are the ideas presented technically correct?
 No, All paper discussed the (Social Snapshots)design***
 Are the proofs accurate?
 Partly, implemented a prototype for Facebook*
 Is the research approach correct?
 Violate security privacy***
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6. Related Work
 Is the paper respect to related work?
 Yes .
 Is there a brief survey of related work?
 Yes, about forensic frameworks.
 Do the authors explain similarities and
differences with previous work?
 No, just (shortcomings for pervious work,
contributions for paper)**.
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7. Readability
 Is the paper well structured?
 Yes. (Abstract, Introduction, Background, Design,..)
 Does the abstract properly accurately
summarize the paper?
 No, Did not mention many of the points (Design,
Framework,….)***.
 Do the introduction and conclusion clearly
explain the contributions and the message?
 Yes.
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8. Readability ….. (Cont.)
 Is the flow of ideas easy to follow?
 Partly. *
 Is the paper well written?
 Yes .
 Are all the technical terms and abbreviations
explained?
 No, i.e (JSON, CSV, GNU, AJAX, EXIF,…..)***
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9. Readability ….. (Cont.)
 Are there important grammatical errors?
 No.
 Are there a lot of typos?
 Applicationspecific(row17- abstract [Application
specific])**,
 Commited (Row2-background [Committed])**,
 ….. etc
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10. Plagiarism Detection &
Prevention Technology
Ithenticate &Trunitin (Tools)
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11. Thanks
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