Does impact factor of a journal publication matter as much as readership of peers?

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Are professional doctorates fully understood by students who undertake them and their employers who support them?

Professional doctorates have been around for some time and closely aligned to practice therefore it is expected that doctorates obtained in this way should be utilised to make changes to practice...

10 November 2013 2,041 4 View

Informed decision making is used in research to indicate self-determination of researchers. My question is, how can researchers facilitate this?

Its one thing to submit ethical applications stating potential participants will be given sufficient information to make an informed decision but in reality, ensuring this happens can be...

10 November 2013 9,146 2 View

Addressing inequality of BME student attainment in HEI

When I teach BME students I do not see a lack of ability or capability but still many do not complete their degree programme with a high classification that is 2:1 and above. Is this a failure on...

01 January 1970 3,155 3 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

Would adding books published in Lambert Publishers increase my RG impact?

There are some books published in LAP. Shall I add it to the RG?

02 March 2021 2,753 1 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

What is the most reliable source to get Impact factor of journals?

Source to get Impact factor of journals

01 March 2021 6,654 2 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

Which period is considered as study period in research?

Is that starting from proposal development to result writeup or just from data collection to result writeup and reporting (publishing)?

28 February 2021 910 2 View

What role should journals play in leading academic fields?

A recent paper by Yeung and Thomas (2021) on journals in event management opens up an interesting debate on the role of journals as academic fora. They demonstrate that event management publishing...

28 February 2021 3,494 6 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

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View