What is technical structure the TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) file format?

Hi I have been wondering about the internal structure of the TREC file format. Is it just an XML file with .trec name extension or there is more to that? By converting multiple .xml files to a...

04 May 2019 6,403 3 View

What is the difference between Scholarly Retrieval Systems (e.g., Google Scholar) and Indexing Services (DOAJ, ArXiv)?

Google Scholar is a scholarly retrieval system that helps finding relevant papers on a certain topic, yet to some scholars, it is an indexing system as well. On the other side, we have several...

10 November 2018 8,374 2 View

How to cite and deal with mathematical equations in manuscripts to avoid similarity and plagiarism?

Hi In writing related work section in contribution papers or during writing review and survey articles, it is often necessary to report the mathematics (mathematical equations) from the cited...

06 July 2018 5,439 3 View

Should archived paper be cited, especially in journal manuscripts?

Dear All Many relevant research manuscripts are archived in archival sites such as https://arxiv.org/ before their appearance as a journal article. If an archived paper is relevant to your topic...

06 July 2018 6,513 9 View

What are the patent/publication details of UltraCane mobility aid?

Hi Much information is available about the UltraCane mobility aid for blind and visually impaired people, like e.g., on their website: https://www.ultracane.com/about_the_ultracane However, I am...

05 June 2018 3,424 0 View

What are the available free, standalone, desktop-based "Language and Grammar Checking" software ?

It has always been a problem for non-native English speakers to write fluently and error-free research papers/technical reports. One solution is asking native English experts for help, another is...

01 February 2018 2,869 2 View

What should be the format of a pre-submission inquiry when a journal does not mention or consider "unsolicited" review manuscripts?

Normally we check the journal website to find whether it considers or not review manuscripts especially unsolicited reviews. In such case, if the journal is very related, we have to send a...

08 September 2017 5,303 3 View

Hardware requirements for developing scholarly big data platform?

What would be the minimum hardware requirements for developing a large-scale scholarly big data platform, which can process e.g., large PDF documents, web pages and some small-sized scanned...

10 November 2016 1,855 3 View

Any difference between algorithm and approach?

Is there any significant difference between algorithm and approach? For example, what would be the difference between recommendation approach and recommendation algorithm OR between ranking...

08 September 2016 4,730 1 View

Any recommendations on developing datasets?

A newly developed Information Retrieval system requires its testing against the existing solutions. Besides evaluation metrics, often comprehensive datasets are required so that the system can be...

04 May 2016 2,233 5 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 View

Is there any rich, publicly available English literary corpus?

Hi everyone. I am looking for a rich corpus in English literature, a one which includes literary prose ( e.g., novels or short stories) . can anyone propose a good one? Best regards Fatemeh

01 March 2021 1,970 2 View

How does one access the Cranet survey data on HRM practices?

Hello, The Cranet website does not provide any lead to the data obtained from their multinational survey on HRM practices. Any help on accessing the data would be most appreciated. Thank...

01 March 2021 9,536 3 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

What is the most reliable source to get Impact factor of journals?

Source to get Impact factor of journals

01 March 2021 6,654 2 View

What is the value of Conference Review Paper?

How much value does a review paper carry in a higher study aspirant student's profile which is presented in a Peer Reviewed Scopus Indexed conference?

27 February 2021 2,068 3 View

How to add missing citation?

Dear colleagues, I have found that many authors have a concern regarding their missing citation in RG because often citation in RG is lower than google scholars. I also missed some citation...

26 February 2021 928 6 View