A Notion template for your scholarly research pipeline
Many researchers and academics use a scholarly pipeline to track their scholarly products. I personally love using Notion for this, since it allows me to house many pieces of information in one place. I’ve also created a dashboard that I find visually appealing, which makes it all the more satisfying to move a project from one stage to another. I’ll share more below about how I track manuscripts using Notion. At the end, I’ll share a copy of the database I’ve created to track my pipeline so you can use it for yourself!
As a disclaimer, I’m 100% not an expert in Notion! It’s a very powerful tool, and if you’re interested in learning more I’d suggest Marie Poulin’s videos and resources.
What is a scholarly pipeline?
A scholarly pipeline is a tool for tracking scholarly projects and their various stages. Some projects may only be at the data collection stage, while others may be in the writing or revision stage. The key idea is that prolific scholars have many different projects at various stages of their pipelines, and that as older projects progress towards publication, newer projects similarly progress from the idea stage to an action stage.
Tracking project progress in Notion
I use Notion to track my scholarly projects, primarily in the form of a table that displays all of my projects, both published and in progress. This lets me have a bird’s eye overview of the different papers I’m working on at any given time. Once I move a paper to the submission stage, I can look to projects earlier in the pipeline to plan where to turn my focus next. I also use Notion to track whether I’m the lead on a paper and what journal is being targeted for submission.
One of the benefits of Notion is that it uses relational databases, which means that you can store and link other blocks of information within a given page. For my scholarly pipeline, that means that I can include a page for each paper or project, where I can store notes on the paper’s progress, where the paper has already been submitted, and potential journals to target for submission if our top choice doesn’t work out. I’ve also linked my Notion account to my Google account, which means that I can even include a link to the manuscript draft in Google Docs.
My scholarly pipeline template
I’m including a link to the template that I created to track my scholarly pipeline. Get the template and try it out for yourself at the link below! You can also check out the other Notion templates that I’ve created.
