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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Manuscript submitted, finally!

I have been really busy last couple of weeks polishing the manuscript of my first scientific article (work that has been ongoing for three years, phew!) This is the second journal we sent it to and already received one round of reviewer comments. The work is coauthored with my supervising professor.

Polishing your work is tough. It takes time and mental effort to try see your text through the eyes of an another person and then having to rewrite a lot.

Normally, the saying goes "The first 10% of effort gives 90% of the benefit". I think in scientific publishing it goes the another way around: The last 10% of effort gives 90% of the benefit. 

This is because only at the end you learn the subject so well that you are able to communicate the work fluently and overall make the work and the story compelling.

Here is a link to the manuscript "Path dependence in Operational Research - An Illustration with the Even Swaps Decision Analysis Method": http://sal.aalto.fi/publications/pdf-files/mham15b.pdf

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