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02 March 2019 9,508 5 View

What journals can be recommended for novice authors in EFL teacher education research?

Novice authors wishing to publish in an international journal are often lost for choice when deciding where to send the first draft.

01 February 2019 7,782 4 View

Is it acceptable to send an article for publication to more than one journal, perhaps hoping to get a quick response?

Very often journals take too long to respond with feedback or a favourable decision, which for some is annoying; one way round this is perhaps to submit to multiple journals and hope for the best.

01 February 2019 9,090 8 View

Should a good writer know how to manipulate phrases, clauses and sentences in order to create an effective variety of accurate syntactic structures?

In order to compete with native-speaker researchers, non-native writers of English, in particular, do need to master English syntax in a way that enables them to produce meaningful and accurate...

10 November 2018 4,327 6 View

How do you maintain or better still increase your RG score when you are busy with other academic work?

When the academic semester begins, quality time to spend on RG is scarce and consequently scores may decline.What is your strategy to stabilse your score especially if further publication work is...

10 November 2018 1,543 2 View

Is it ethical/professional/acceptable to Recommend, or pass as Reads, work that is unrelated to one's academic field?

It has been noted that some RG members recommend and perhaps also read unrelated research work. Obviously this is intended to boost scores for certain colleagues of theirs, but do you think this...

10 November 2018 559 8 View

What is the best rubric for assessing written assignments?

Writing is one of the most difficult skills to assess. Many questions arise when assessing writing: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, organisation, ideas, coherence, cohesion, etc. What...

10 November 2018 5,674 2 View

How do you manage work-related stress?

Work stress is something most professional academics suffer from at least from time to time. You cannot ignore work stress and carry on because eventually it grinds you to a halt. Advise others on...

09 October 2018 980 3 View

Isn't it unfair when your citing paper(s) is not on Research Gate?

I have 9 cited papers on Google Scholar, only 4 of which are on RG. Don't you think this is unfair? What would you do in such case?

09 October 2018 7,006 0 View

Is there a correlation between speaking and writing skills?

What kind of correlation, if any, is there between speaking and writing? How true is it that some good speakers cannot write well, and vice versa?

09 October 2018 5,876 29 View

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

How to calculate average trend in maximum annual NDVI from MODIS?

I am wanting to calculate the average trend in maximum annual NDVI in Iceland from 2010-2020 using MODIS MYD13Q1 V6. How would I do this? I have currently inserted the NDVI bands from the MODIS...

02 March 2021 752 2 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

Can polymer concentrations be calculated based on the number average molecular weight?

Hello, I spin-cast two different polymers onto wafers and measure their height as a function of initial concentration. For polymer A, I have the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) as well as...

28 February 2021 7,882 2 View

How can I publish a manuscript in free or low cost journal with good H-Index?

Dear all I am going to publish my manuscript which is from my thesis in a good H-Index journal but I found them very expensive(I don't have financial support) based on the exchange currency of my...

28 February 2021 7,800 6 View

Is there a fast method matching citations to bibliography (manually typed references)?

I need to be able to match in-text citations to a reference list and back again in very large documents (100+ pages) WITHOUT the use of referencing software like Endnote. my method is to type the...

27 February 2021 9,848 1 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 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

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Fractional impervious surface (FIS) map ?

Need Help Does anyone Know how to make a Fractional impervious surface (FIS) map from NDVI map, in ArcGIS environment? Thanks in advance

24 February 2021 8,455 2 View