Is it morally correct for journals to request article processing charges?

I know publishing houses spend lots of money to prepare, publishing and hosting published manuscripts. But considering the fact that they don't pay authors for their manuscript, as well as they...

05 June 2019 2,942 1 View

What's the best drug consumption date?

There is a pharm crisis taking place in my backyard. Recent a cough syrup entered the pharmaceutical market but with manufacturing date of 8th March 2019 and expire date of 20th March 2020. The...

01 February 2019 5,273 1 View

When is predictive analysis using AIC logistic modeling apprpriate?

I am on a treatment outcome studies but confused whether to use AIC stepwise logistic model to predict treatment success using patient clinical and non clinical characteristics....i am analysing...

31 December 2017 3,165 3 View

Should I play it safe with hard to discuss estimate parameters?

Three out of five of my covariates in my logistic model are significant but can only find explanation/ interpretation for one of the significant ones. Should I only discuss the one and leave out...

07 August 2017 5,455 2 View

Should people from Zikka virus affected countries be initially quarantined??

Zikka virus is spreading across south america and the US and this is not a good sign for global public health. During the ebola outbreak in 2014 people coming from countries where the ebola...

01 February 2016 6,945 20 View

Should we use odds ratio or relative risk when calculating Vaccine Efficiency in trials?

Can someone tell me why OR is used instead of the RR for most vaccine trials? Definitely those trials are prospective cohorts design but browsing through publications including those of CDC on vac...

08 September 2015 1,621 8 View

Will test-stats result for two sample and One Way ANOVA F-test have identical result in terms of P-value?

31 December 2014 880 7 View

Can one consider coefficient of correlation and covariance between two variables a form of measure of association?

I am doing a study to determine whether syndromic data can be used to predict the case fatality rate in an epidemic. I have come to realized that determining the coefficient of correlation and...

11 December 2014 4,050 17 View

Does anyone see any link between Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel and the ecological determinants of health behavior?

Most people like myself who have gone through Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel only see the role of racism and poverty. Could there be other issues the novel is portraying which I am not seeing??

10 November 2014 5,165 0 View

Is he patient zero?

Consider doing an epidemic study and have collected data on the index/primary case. Three months thereafter you are told of someone who died four months prior to the start of your study and with...

09 October 2014 5,077 5 View

Where can I find public datasets with Covid-19 patient information?

Hi, I'm looking for public datasets that have CT, X-ray information, or medical records for patients with Covid-19. Does anyone have suggestions?

28 February 2021 4,760 3 View

How to get rid of somebody pretending to be the author of a publication?

One of the publication I co-authored has the author's name in abbreviation. Then, somebody whose nothing to do with that paper acquired it as her work. To whom in this RG shall I ask for a hand,...

27 February 2021 4,206 4 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

Why is My firend's profile not visible?

Hello, I created a profile for my friend on google scholar. I have added a verified email address. I marked the profile as public. Formerly his profile was visible. However, now, When I type his...

24 February 2021 8,680 3 View

How was your experience with Biomedical and Biotechnology Journal?

How was your publication experience with BBRJ in terms of peer review and reviewer comments. Did you find it fair and transparent ?

23 February 2021 3,810 6 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

Research Gate Does it help researches to publicize their scientific work ?

In my opinion, the RG site is useful in solving scientific problems and shows the researcher's ability. Besides, the separation of the H-index from the self-citations and the overall index is an...

22 February 2021 3,894 6 View

I can't edit my publication, the "edit" is blurred. How can I edit it?

I have entered a wrong question mark in my publication and added "Forthcoming", I want to edit the title of my publication, but the "EDIT" is blurred, I can't edit it. Any suggestion? thank you.

18 February 2021 1,279 3 View

How to decrease the time for publication of paper in a journal ?

It takes a lot of time in publishing the paper in the journal, from few months to a year so how one can able to decrease the time for publication.

17 February 2021 2,997 14 View

Does anybody know a public dataset of drop landing or jump landing maneuvers?

Dear all, In our project we would like to test different control strategies during drop landing compared to jump landing. After an intensive search I could not find a public dataset of drop...

09 February 2021 7,093 4 View