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

How often do we have retraction nowadays? What could be an estimate of the percentage of any type of fraud?

Here an example of a paper that has been withdraw because it had already been...

11 December 2014 8,677 0 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

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