Dear academics, can you share the reasons why you accept invitations to peer review? And the reasons why you decline invitations to peer review?

Most academics receive invitations to peer review articles submitted to academics journals. What is not clear is why we do or don't accept invitations to peer review. Please share your insights.

04 May 2018 658 1 View

Is it ethical to read articles for the purpose of collecting authors' ideas and not cite them?

In your opinion, how common is this practice? Is there a tendency to cite publications in high impact factors?

31 December 2017 4,068 3 View

Regarding Scopus Journal Ranking, anybody knows how Q1 or Q2, Q3, Q4 is calculated for overlapping multi disciplinary publications?

Scopus ranks journals according to certain disciplines, so it is common to see a journal ranked Q1 in policy for example, Q2 in a very relevant discipline , and Q3 in remotely relevant disiplines....

10 November 2017 7,539 11 View

Do you use gender-neutral language to refer to people of unspecified gender? Can we use se for (s/he), hem for (him/her), and hes for (his/her)?

Please share your experience and ideas.

04 May 2016 5,962 0 View

Would calling those under arrest "to be cleared or the presumed innocent" show more respect for their rights and prevent irreparable harm by media?

07 August 2014 2,198 2 View

Should academics receive credit for their unpublished research? If yes, on what grounds?

The conduct of research has many components including ideas, protocol, experiments, collection of and analysis of data..... While scientist endure months of hardships to conduct a research...

07 August 2014 3,310 10 View

Should studies published in ResearchGate and refereed by ResearchGate peer reviewers be counted as scholarly publications?

Yes, in my humble opinion. Firstly because scientists have an interest in disseminating their intellectual work through an interactive, secure and free medium. Secondly, traditional journals use...

05 June 2014 4,164 13 View

As for the taxpayers right to access publicly funding research, should scientists publish in their native language?

Recalling the difficulties and increasing editing/translating costs which may encumber them.

04 May 2014 904 4 View

Given the fact that peers include some opponents and unethical competitors; should authors have the right to disqualify reviewers?

When conflict of interest exists and the reviewer does not recuse him/herself.

04 May 2014 7,610 2 View

Should institutions be urged to review their publications for evidence of research misconduct?

Given recent findings of irreproducibility, plagiarism, flawed statistics, data manipulation, falsification and fabrications in some published works.

04 May 2014 2,260 5 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View