How to evaluate the Scientific Paper?
(Paper as Example)
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Outline
 Overview
 Significance and originality
 Technical Soundness
 Related Work
 Readability
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Plagiarism Detection &
Prevention Technology
Ithenticate &Trunitin (Tools)
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Thanks
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How to evaluate the scientific paper

  • 1.
    How to evaluatethe Scientific Paper? (Paper as Example) Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 2.
    Outline  Overview  Significanceand originality  Technical Soundness  Related Work  Readability Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 3.
    Overview  What's thepaper 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. Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 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. Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 5.
    Technical Soundness  Arethe 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*** Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 6.
    Related Work  Isthe 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)**. Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 7.
    Readability  Is thepaper 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. Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 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,…..)*** Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 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 Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
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    Plagiarism Detection & PreventionTechnology Ithenticate &Trunitin (Tools) Papered by :Dr. Hamdan M. Al-Sabri
  • 11.
    Thanks Papered by :Dr.Hamdan M. Al-Sabri