How can we study the corrosion behavior of the nonmetallic inclusions in pipeline steels?

31 December 2014 7,445 16 View

What verification we need on the latest BICEP2's universe inflation?

There are a few points being raised lately on the first direct evidence on the universe inflation and the detection of gravitational waves: 1. The cosmic microwave polarization patterns referred...

04 May 2014 3,997 3 View

What is so unique about the egg?

The egg is one of the unique feats of natural engineering. Its three-dimensional arch structure can support the weight of a standing human being yet it is so delicate that a baby bird can peck its...

03 April 2014 4,497 4 View

Can fracture mechanics predict when the whole Universe will fracture?

This question is open for chemists, metallurgists, physicists and astrophysicists: Check out this diagram which has been released today on Universe inflation. It describes how the universe has...

03 April 2014 171 22 View

How should the corresponding author approach a journal editorial office when the status 'With Editor' did not vaguely change for so long?

In case for example the status 'With Editor' did not change for two months or so, Are there risks of any kind the corresponding author should be aware of when reaching the journal's editorial...

02 March 2014 6,930 2 View

How does H2S affect the corrosion reactions in CO2 solutions?

Please see attached this figure from a journal paper I am currently reviewing. I made slight changes to it to maintain the anonymity. The paper addresses the significance of H2S with the...

02 March 2014 6,392 1 View

Why the rate of hydrogen generation increases with chloride concentration?

Please check out these potentiodynamic profiles for experiments I recently carried out: it shows potentiodynamic scans for a pipeline steel immersed in CO2-saturated solutions of different...

02 March 2014 2,918 13 View

On the relationship between speed and time, have the standardized tests gone too far?

Please check out this question excerpted from a standardized test for high-school students in a North American country; It says: Which of the following would be a graph of speed vs. time for the...

02 March 2014 8,241 3 View

Can computational fluid dynamics help calculate corrosion rates of pipelines?

I am currently reviewing a research paper presenting an electrochemical study on corrosion-enhanced erosion. It attempts to link the CFD of a modeled flow to the corrosion rates of an elbow made...

02 March 2014 4,129 5 View

How reliable is the potentiodynamic polarization in predicting the corrosion behavior?

To test the corrosion behavior (or resistance) of an engineering material in an aqueous medium one can carry out immersion tests for specific periods of time across which the mass loss and...

02 March 2014 4,540 11 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 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

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

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

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

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

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

Are we using now IT technology effectively?

I discover now two my papers, which are more then 30 years old and which are describing something, what was done in years 1985 -...

21 February 2021 5,008 3 View