The following is the experience shared by netizens about graduate students studying in the United States, teaching you how to find professors' papers effectively, hoping to help you apply for studying in the United States. The purpose of the magnetic sleeve is to convince the professor that my research background is very relevant to you, that I have some opinions on your project, and that my grades and English are good. If you hire someone next year, I'm the right person for you. So how to convince the professor? "I'm ..." "I'm GT, GPA ......................." Professor Yun Yun has long been disgusted. Many people are talking about setting up a "matching" professor. That makes sense. Just like a war, know yourself and know yourself, and you will be invincible; Just like looking for a wife. How can you live without getting along? From this perspective, reading the professor's thesis may be regarded as a necessary condition for magnetism. Some people will say that each professor has his own profile in the department of the department's homepage, in which the research interests/fields/key points are very clear. Do you want to read the paper? I don't understand. If you ask me, 90% people can't understand it, but we still have to watch it. Thesis is one of the things that can best reflect the research trends of a professor. It is true that the professor's home page will list his recent publications and research projects, and better still, it will be updated to 2008, and even directly indicate which projects have started. But this is a minority after all. It seems that many professors' homepages have not been updated for n years. The photos of team members are from 2005, and the latest paper is from 2006. But does this mean that this person has retired from the rivers and lakes? Not necessarily. After searching in the database, I found that there was just a paper online two months ago, which was quite in line with my taste. So I sighed: what a good professor, I almost slipped away. It should also be noted that the direction on the professor's homepage may deviate from the thesis, which is probably also a matter of effect. Things are different, people will change, maybe one day the professor loses interest and patience in one direction and turns to another. At this time, don't be silly and "interested" in what the professor left behind for three or four years. Of course, the change before and after is generally not a 180 degree turn, there will always be some correlation. The key words, abstract, introduction and conclusion of the paper need attention. Keywords and abstracts let us quickly identify the correlation between the research direction of this paper and our own research background. It is impossible for an article to have only one keyword, and our research background will more or less involve knowledge in many fields. Compared with the two, the more matches there are, the greater the possibility of success. If there are not many similarities, try it. If we have only done some superficial research and have no in-depth understanding of this field (especially a small book like ours), then we should first try our best to understand the introduction and conclusion, at least to understand how far this field has developed, what problems exist, what problems the professor's paper has solved, and what the future outlook is ... So if a professor comes, there will always be nothing to say. As for the experiment in this paper, if it is not a cow, it can be saved first. After all, this is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job. The author information under the title of the paper tells you who works under the professor. Often, an eye-catching Chinese name is ranked as the first author. You can send an email to our compatriots for information before you formally set up a professor, and sometimes you will get a lot of gains. The situation of multi-unit authors (generally distinguished by A, B and C ...) shows that this project was completed by many universities or research institutes, that is to say, there is one more resource. At this time, you can snicker: I caught the sample ~ At the end of the article, there is usually a thank you to express your gratitude. Generally, the sources of research funding and some collaborators not included by the author will be listed. Perhaps we can get a glimpse of the professor's funding from here. Under normal circumstances, research projects or state subsidies on campus are small money, NSF should have more money, and large companies and military projects generally give more money. I haven't done detailed research in this respect, and I need to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the source, distribution and specific disciplines of American academic circles. But it is certainly useful for us to know a little bit about it, because the boss's money is our future ~ the end of the article is all references, all of which are references. This can also help us get in touch with other professors, and it is also a good resource if we want to have a deeper understanding of this field. An interesting phenomenon is that nearly half of the documents (at least on the subject of materials) have people from China, so sometimes I wonder, where will my name be in the future?