Why do many researchers claim they used "environmentally relevant concentrations" in fate and toxicity studies? Is this an ethical practice?

The number of articles that claims the authors used environmentally relevant concentrations continues to skyrocket. However, a recent study found that in most cases the authors picked the highest...

09 October 2017 9,198 2 View

What makes a book review worthy for publishing in a reputable journals?

I noticed some reputable journals like Science regularly publish three to four book reviews. As someone who aspires to be a faculty, writing book reviews could help demonstrate my level of...

09 October 2017 4,046 4 View

Is writing a book chapter really worth it?

I have written three book chapters and only one has been cited. However, most people cited the whole book rather than specific chapters that had material of concern. Hence, I now feel like I...

08 September 2017 9,257 1 View

What is your take on "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John P. A. Ioannidis

Working in method development in an HPLC study, I followed a certain method that claimed separation of my analytes of concern. No separation was achieved, I imitated all the conditions they gave...

01 January 1970 9,433 8 View

Isolation of Bacteria in Surface Water

I am looking for a good method to isolate bacteria that degrade pharmaceuticals in surface water. I am doing a study on degradation of neutral, basic and acid pharmaceuticals in waste water, river...

01 January 1970 3,608 7 View

What advise could you give young researchers on how to carry out literature survey/literature review of their subject matter?

In as much as the basic tenets of research are still the same, research in the 21st century is considerably different with that in the previous centuries. Young researchers are often caught up in...

01 January 1970 5,518 4 View

Enantioseparation of Pharmaceuticals by Normal Phase HPLC.

I am developing a method for enantioseparation of fluoxetine, atenolol and tramadol using Chiralpak AD-H and Chiralpak IA. Is there any reliable, published method you can recommend? I used a...

01 January 1970 1,449 2 View

Hypothesis Based Research Proposal?

I am writing a research proposal and was advised to use hypothesis based writing. I tried searching on google about that but didn't get any satisfactory hits. I am writing a scientific research...

01 January 1970 8,685 7 View

Preparation of buffer?

I am doing chiral separation of drugs on reverse phase Chirobiotic V column. One of the methods require that I use triethylamine acetate in methanol as mobile phase. The only instruction I have...

01 January 1970 655 4 View

What advise can you give on how to write a book chapter on analysis of toxicants?

What is the effective method for mining of literature on determination of human toxic substances? What is the best method you recommend in organizing the literature which I would have found? Are...

01 January 1970 9,572 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 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 access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 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

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 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

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 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