How can one describe a journal that publishes an article before all reviewers comments are recieved?

I was asked by two journals to review articles sent for publication. I sent in my review comments before the due date but I discovered later that the two papers have been published by the...

10 November 2018 6,703 2 View

Why do some Institutions conference papers lower than Journal articles during assessments for academic promotion?

There are good quality papers presented at conferences with innovative and novel findings but I discovered that some Institutions rate conference papers lower that journal papers and also limit...

07 August 2018 8,156 2 View

Can anyone confirm if Sciendo and De Gruyter are legitimate or predatory publishers?

I am about to enter discussions with Sciendo and De Gruyter about book publications. I want information from anyone who has published with them before or has any knowledge of their operations

04 May 2018 4,163 15 View

What protective measures can one take in a city where soot pollution is a daily occurrence?

I am temporarily in a city where pollution by particulate carbon (soot) both PM2.5 & PM10 occurs on a daily basis especially in the night and early morning. Can anyone who has witnessed such...

03 April 2018 9,874 5 View

Can a predatory publisher turn a new leaf and become a legitimate publisher and what effect will it have on the psyche of researchers?

02 March 2018 3,685 7 View

What are the pros and cons of self-publishing in terms of quality of the published work?

Advantages and disadvamtages of self-publishing

01 February 2018 5,450 2 View

How can one scientifically determine sample size when collecting of environmental samples (e.g. air, soil and water)?

Many research works that I have read determine sample size for environmental sampling arbitrarily but I believe that the use of statistical tools will make it more scientific

11 December 2017 6,235 0 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

can I treat waste water containing solvents and alcohol with electrocoagulation?

there are solvents and alcohol in the waste water of a factory that produces disinfectants. Increasing this waste water requires very serious operations. Can I treat this waste water with...

27 February 2021 2,609 3 View

How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT?

Im looking for any papers, reports,articles, links etc on information on How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT.

24 February 2021 2,750 4 View

How to calculate refractive index (n and kvalue) against energy (in eV) data for alloyed nanomaterials through Independent Phase Approximation method?

Suggest me the method or some other software to calculate the above said data for nanoparticles.

21 February 2021 3,350 7 View

What properties of water shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon?

I would like to ask what other properties of water (pH and such) shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon from filtering the contaminants present in the water?

20 February 2021 9,422 8 View

What is the best substrate for exfoliating few layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) using traditional scotch tape method?

Unlike graphene, it is usually very difficult to exfoliate few layers (~10 nm thick) of hBN on SiO2 substrate due to lip-lip interaction at the edges. Au substrates have been proven very useful...

16 February 2021 2,635 2 View

Dissertation Topic Ideas for MSc Business Management?

Hello, I hope everyone reading this is doing well during these tough times. I am doing my masters in business management and considering dissertation topics. I'm interested in taking an...

15 February 2021 594 26 View

Do the introduced salts (NaOH/ HCl) influence the spectroscopic shifts of the fluorescence excitation-emission matrix?

During the resin (XAD-8) fractionation of wastewater salts (NaOH or HaCl) are used for acid or base elutions/pH adjustments. Since the amount of introduced salt is minimal, so is it required to...

08 February 2021 9,489 2 View