How to deal with student's evaluations?

In order to improve own's teaching it is essental to get constructive feedback, The only form this feedback is organized and instituionalized (at the moment at least) is student's evaluation with...

04 May 2018 9,960 29 View

Which social media to use in academia?

besides the usual suspects, what social media would you recommend for academics, especially for those within the humanities?

05 June 2017 1,987 4 View

Strict syllabus or improvisation?

Following the "teaching the subject or teaching students" thread, I want to ask how strictly one should follow a syllabus in order to communicate with student's needs. It's easy to say: let's...

11 December 2015 2,747 65 View

Is it really a standard practice to present the same paper at different conferences?

09 October 2015 5,145 6 View

Are social media influencing academic hiring?

How do social media like RG or academia or even FB influence one's employabilty? Does a RG score count? Are people at Human Resources really checking canditates on google first? And how can we...

02 March 2015 6,550 0 View

How shall we deal with questionable publishers?

We all know publishing houses sending e-mails to everyone who has written a thesis or organized a congress. They offer to publish whatever it is and with no quality controll. Most of them have no...

01 February 2015 6,968 0 View

How to make a journal a peer reviewed one?

I have published a couple of articles in peer reviewed journals. The experiences were quite different. Are there official rules for peer reviewed journals or is it very broad term that can be...

01 February 2015 1,510 1 View

University affiliation or independent scholar?

Should scholars with loose university affiliations present themselves as independent scholars or in connection with the university where the teach and/or research? What's the point in mentioning a...

10 November 2014 5,096 2 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

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

Any suggestions for a website that allows you to create questionnaires and gather unlimited data (Totally free)?

I have found only four of them; www.surveyplanet.com www.online-anket.gen.tr www.surveey.com and of course google forms. Expecting to see your suggestions if there is any. Thank you

28 February 2021 3,237 3 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

Trouble with Charting with Google Earth Engine (Technical)?

Hello. I have a problem with the charting in google earth engine. I created an image collection by combining 5 image collections of five parameters and using ee.Join.inner ( ) and .apply ( )...

26 February 2021 7,084 2 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

Can anyone recommend which is the best free questionnaire software please?

Hello, I am looking to send out links to an online survey. My previous research project used a paid for survey software. I am now looking for something that's free but straight forward to...

19 February 2021 5,641 3 View