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Is the "single author" research paper really applicable? How it weighs against the "team- work" research execution& publishing? in medicine mainly?

Apart from "Review Articles", Does being a single author for a scientific paper in a medical specialty stand logic? Still some educational institutions& universities credit "single author...

06 July 2018 2,250 0 View

What's the number "1" criterion to determine the universities ranking by different international organizations& sites?

Every now and then we hear about a new position of a given university or a university college in an international ranking system. What is the most important point in universities ranking? Is it...

06 July 2018 6,467 5 View

Dear RG colleagues, do you support my opinion that reviewing papers as an editorial board member of a given journal has to be a free (non-paid) job?

As publishing scientific papers aims- at the end- to serve humanity and improve the quality of life, I think that the contribution of international reviewers and journals editorials must be free....

05 June 2018 9,222 1 View

Why does "ResearchGate" report a lower number of citations than does other sites like google scholar for the same researcher?

While research sites like google scholar, gives a number of citations for a given researchers' work, RG still provides him/ her a lower citation record.....Also, this sounds the same for the...

05 June 2018 486 4 View

What is the proper action to be honestly taken when a scientific journal accepts a paper& does not publish it for a reason or another?

Some journals may have their activity been ceased for a reason or another for a relatively long time. Prior to this, some papers may have been offered acceptance, but then not published yet!. So,...

05 June 2018 3,184 5 View

To which extent publishing raw data of a started research work or its preprint on researchgate is safe in terms of privacy and copyrights?

Despite that early pre-publishing exposure & sharing of reseach data and/or drafts on researchgate credits the researcher a lot and subjects him for early peer reviewing& citations, but...

03 April 2018 1,639 0 View

Does anybody have an idea that how histone acetyl-transferase& deacetylase play an important role in chromatin remodeling during DNA transcription?

We need to understand the mechanism of chromatin remodeling in order to transcribe DNA. Of these are these two crucial enzymes

02 March 2018 7,956 3 View

I haven't worked on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) before. What extra steps would mtDNA extraction needs over genomic DNA extraction? practically i mean?

Extraction of genomic DNA is done easily by some commercial kits. I've done it many times by kits from Promega and Qiagen. What additional steps are needed for extraction of mitochondrial DNA?

02 March 2018 3,439 0 View

What's the lowest number of subjects to be involved in a population study to establish a reference range for a particular serum biochemical analyte?

I am intending to do some work on fasting serum insulin...my aim is to establish its reference range among people of my locality& I would be happy if i can get some useful advises about the...

01 February 2018 9,409 8 View

What is the aim behind adding "Hi- Di formamide" during the procedure of primer extension or " minisequencing" of DNA"?

Addition of Hi-Di formamide is traditionally necessary during primer extension procedure prior to samples loading in a gene analyzer...what does this step stand for?

01 February 2018 1,610 3 View

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

Is there a fast method matching citations to bibliography (manually typed references)?

I need to be able to match in-text citations to a reference list and back again in very large documents (100+ pages) WITHOUT the use of referencing software like Endnote. my method is to type the...

27 February 2021 9,848 1 View

How to add missing citation?

Dear colleagues, I have found that many authors have a concern regarding their missing citation in RG because often citation in RG is lower than google scholars. I also missed some citation...

26 February 2021 928 6 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

What is the most important parameter of a research work, the impact factor or the h index?

The impact factor is a measure of the importance of a journal based on the number of citations received in a year. ... Articles published in a journal with a high impact factor do not all receive...

24 February 2021 7,481 2 View

What is the original citation for the commonly used activity factors for converting basal metabolic rate to total caloric need?

I see the same activity factor (multipliers) in research papers and websites, but I cannot find where they come from. Does anyone know where these originated? I am looking for an original...

18 February 2021 7,635 2 View

Why the FIGURE inserted through endnote 20 is not showing in word?

I wanted to insert the FIGURE files through endnote 20, but the image is not showing in the two-column IEEE Journal template. However, the image inserting position is marked as (Figure 1), (Figure...

05 February 2021 8,167 1 View

How do I correct an inaccurate citation?

I was asked to verify a citation: Drugs and galencials, by D. C. Garratt, B.Sc., Ph.D (Lond.),... The author's first name is Emerson and the last name is Beeler. It was incorrectly cited as...

03 February 2021 5,272 3 View

How do Research Gate proceed to integrate in the reference data publications and citations the recently published journals ?

How do Research Gate proceed to integrate in the reference data for publications and citations the recently published journals - for instance for the last months of 2020 and for instance Intl J...

02 February 2021 9,336 7 View