Do you think that Impact Factor helps or hampers science and/or scholarly publishing?

Recently, Clarivate Analytics (a company that owns Thompson Rueters) released the 2018 Impact Factor for journals, suspending many journals for manipulating their citations. Based on this, do you...

06 July 2018 6,950 39 View

What are you grateful for in 2017?

As we approach the end of 2017, do you have any reason(s) to be grateful? If yes or no, please share with us.

11 December 2017 6,400 38 View

On what condition(s) can one appeal against an unjust rejection of his/her article?

On which circumstance(s) should a researcher appeal to an editor against his/her rejected article? Have you ever appealed against a rejection? Was the appeal successful? Please share your...

11 December 2017 8,971 75 View

Will you ever encourage your children to become academics/researchers like you?

Based on life experiences, one can encourage or discourage his/her children from following a similar career path. Can you encourage or discourage your children from becoming...

10 November 2017 1,418 94 View

Is it ethical to review a paper for a journal after you had earlier read and offered a feedback on the draft to the authors?

If an editor sends a paper to you to review and you discover that it is the paper some authors had earlier asked you to read and give them feedback (during preparation) before submitting it to the...

08 September 2017 6,029 46 View

How many articles should a researcher accept to peer review in a year?

Reviews take time and other resources to conduct/complete, and multiple invitations are received from editors. Based on your experience, how many papers (ideally) should one accept/agree to review...

08 September 2017 9,640 81 View

As a researcher/academic, do you engage in community service?

07 August 2017 8,292 60 View

What will you do if you discover that your name was listed as a member of an editorial team of a predatory journal without your consent?

I found out recently that my name was listed as a member of the editorial board of a predatory journal. What will be your reaction if such happens to you?

07 August 2017 5,864 53 View

Why is suicide rate high among celebrities despite the fact that they often appear to be happy in the media?

06 July 2017 2,055 36 View

Why is media bias increasing rapidly?

01 February 2017 6,669 19 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

How to write a scientific report?

We are analysing scientific reports at University in great detail, so I wanted to find a scientific report about how to write a scientific report. Including detail such as what information to put...

02 March 2021 7,602 4 View

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

How to add a journal?

I would like to know how to register the journal Flora Montiberica (ISSN 1138-5952 - eISSN 1988-799X) in Research Gate.

02 March 2021 8,156 2 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 View

Do you know good and user-friendly programs to measure plant quantitative traits?

For my research i will need to measure plant quantitative traits (especially leaves area and roots length, but would be nice to add some more information). I recently discovered...

01 March 2021 5,035 2 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View