How can bibliometric/scientometrics studies help in evaluating trends in specific research topics?

07 August 2016 7,785 4 View

What are characteristics of core journals, apart from being those that publish more?

Bradford's law of scattering tell us that, it we rank journals according to the number of articles in a specific field, the top 1/3 can be considered "core journals". This only describes core...

01 February 2015 5,674 3 View

What are current challenges for new cohort studies?

09 October 2014 6,885 2 View

What are the mechanisms linking health status and (health related) quality of life?

If it is because people with some illness tend to become concerned with their condition, then I could rephrase to: why does being concerned with health affect your quality of life? Is it because...

06 July 2014 4,436 4 View

What is the best software for multilevel modelling?

I work with effects of contexts like the place of residence, and use different softwares that fit multilevel models (R, Stata, MLWin, Mplus). Almost any software does this analysis, nowadays (SAS,...

10 November 2013 4,370 8 View

Do you know about Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Oral Impact on Daily Performance (OIDP) questionnaire?

This is one of the most used instruments to measure oral health related quality of life but it has been used in many different ways. Some researchers used only the frequency score, others multiply...

08 September 2013 9,601 2 View

Many say that quality of life is a multidimensional construct. Are Oral Health Related Quality of Life instruments multidimensional?

A recent article (below) has challenged the "multidimensionality" of a popular instrument. Actually, people are used to calculate just one overall score, implying just one factor, so it does not...

08 September 2013 1,941 9 View

Public Policies are part of Welfare Policies. How to define and how to measure welfare?

Since Titmus and Esping-Andersen, we have always categorized three types of welfare regimes among developed countries. Could we expand this to Asian, Afrian and Latin-america countries? Would such...

11 December 2012 548 2 View

There is an idea that the increased number of publication led to a lower mean number of citation (lower quality papers). Could this be true or not?

There is a newspaper material explaining the above cited...

01 January 1970 950 3 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

How to upload pdf of my articles published?

How to upload pdf of my articles published?

03 March 2021 2,183 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

Is Journal of Agricultural Research a predator?

it is published by Juniper

28 February 2021 354 4 View

How can I publish a manuscript in free or low cost journal with good H-Index?

Dear all I am going to publish my manuscript which is from my thesis in a good H-Index journal but I found them very expensive(I don't have financial support) based on the exchange currency of my...

28 February 2021 7,800 6 View

Which software is better to write systematic review paper?

We have seen some authors use some software to write review paper. As obvious, the study of all published papers concerning our studying field is not possible and these software can help us to...

27 February 2021 6,296 1 View

Can I put a figure that was drawn by Bio-Render in publication paper?

I want to publish paper in journal but I have figures which have drawn with bio-renders, can I put them in the paper or which other software I can use to draw them?

27 February 2021 8,179 1 View

Can anyone please help me in processing SAR SLC data to generate interferogram using SNAP?

I have two scenes of the study area, one top and the other bottom. As per the tutorials and papers published, the step include coregistering the master sand slave images. However, when i try to...

24 February 2021 6,372 1 View

How do I change a preprint to published?

I want to know how to change the status of an article.

21 February 2021 1,536 2 View

How can we improve AI in detecting fraudulent activities on digital payments?

I am conducting a study on the effectiveness of AI towards detecting and averting digital payment fraud. What are the popular AI techniques being adopted in mitigating digital fraud and how could...

21 February 2021 3,888 4 View