What is the best way to retract or withdraw a paper after it is published?

Recently, one of my colleagues found out major errors in a paper written by him and published in a reputed journal after peer review. He wants to retract the whole paper and resubmit afresh after...

01 February 2016 8,309 3 View

How much time elapsed shall be given in order to assess the impact of publications?

11 December 2015 1,032 2 View

What is the best way of imparting training to young faculty members who are new to teaching?

In most of the institutions, there is no provision for imparting training to young faculty members who are new to teaching profession. Right from day one, they are allotted subjects (irrespective...

10 November 2014 1,334 10 View

What are the long term effects of 'Academic Scams' compared to 'Financial Scams' in the growth and development of a Nation?

What are the long term effects of 'Academic Scams' compared to 'Financial Scams' in the growth and development of a Nation? Edit A very small percentage of population either knows or understands...

09 October 2014 5,199 0 View

What are the long term effects of 'Academic Scams' compared to 'Financial Scams' in the growth and development of a Nation?

A very small percentage of population either knows or understands 'Academic Scams'. There are many types of 'Academic Scams', such as bogus degrees, bogus publications, bogus awards, etc. It is...

09 October 2014 6,508 0 View

What are the long term effects of 'Academic Scams' compared to 'Financial Scams' in the growth and development of a Nation?

A very small percentage of population either knows or understands 'Academic Scams'. There are many types of 'Academic Scams', such as bogus degrees, bogus publications, bogus awards, etc. It is...

09 October 2014 5,112 0 View

Why are scientists (technologists and researchers) poor communicators with the general public?

Research is mostly funded by tax payers money. However, it is observed that researchers are unable to explain their work in simple language to general public. Does this mean that modern research...

31 December 2013 2,007 29 View

How important it is for the Scientists to be 'Visible'?

One of the important criteria for a scientist to get research funding / awards / honors etc. is to be 'Visible'.

31 December 2013 561 6 View

Why senior teachers are reluctant to take classes for freshly admitted students?

Normally, senior most teachers shall take classes for freshers. This practice is followed in many US Universities where senior most Professors or even Nobel Laurette teach freshers. But it is...

11 December 2013 7,382 10 View

How should Heads of Departments allot subjects to teaching staff? Shall freedom be given to teachers to select the subject they prefer to teach?

Heads of Departments are often put in a critical position viz-a -viz allotment of subjects to staff. There are some subjects which nobody wants to teach. On the other hand, there are subjects...

11 December 2013 5,294 36 View

How do you write a simplified C block code of this average-current control on PSIM?

This is a Buck (step-down) Converter and I am new to this program. I need to program with simplified C block and I actually don't know what to do. Can anyone show me how to do this? Or at least...

02 March 2021 8,233 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Do you know good and user-friendly programs to measure plant quantitative traits?

For my research i will need to measure plant quantitative traits (especially leaves area and roots length, but would be nice to add some more information). I recently discovered...

01 March 2021 5,035 2 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 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

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

Is it possible to set a breakpoint at a specific DYNAMIC instruction using the GNU Debugger (GDB)?

Using GDB, it is straightforward to debug and monitor a target program by setting a break-point at a specific instruction, since the instruction addresses are known. However, we have two...

24 February 2021 1,598 2 View

Implementation of chance-constrained optimization problem via scenario approach?

23 February 2021 7,826 2 View

I am looking for a simple software program to model 3D chemical bonds. The purpose is to generate high-quality graphical abstracts. Any suggestion?

Hello everyone: I am looking for a simple software program to model chemical bonds. The purpose is to generate a high-quality graphical abstract for a top leading journal in the field of...

23 February 2021 8,012 3 View

Can I use FLEXBAR to detect and remove barcodes out of my short reads without demultiplexing ?

Hello, I have demultiplexed my short reads and I have removed the Illumina adapter left in the sequences and now I need to remove the barcodes used by the sequencing centre from my reads. I have...

22 February 2021 9,873 3 View