Amjad Hazim Al- Naemi

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Dear RG colleagues, Greetings Today, I received an alert from "Google Scholar" about a new citation to one of my papers. I was highly surprised that those authors have copied long paragraphs from...

02 February 2019 7,657 4 View

What's the number "1" criterion to determine the universities ranking by different international organizations& sites?

Every now and then we hear about a new position of a given university or a university college in an international ranking system. What is the most important point in universities ranking? Is it...

07 July 2018 6,537 5 View

Is the "single author" research paper really applicable? How it weighs against the "team- work" research execution& publishing? in medicine mainly?

Apart from "Review Articles", Does being a single author for a scientific paper in a medical specialty stand logic? Still some educational institutions& universities credit "single author...

07 July 2018 2,322 0 View

What is the proper action to be honestly taken when a scientific journal accepts a paper& does not publish it for a reason or another?

Some journals may have their activity been ceased for a reason or another for a relatively long time. Prior to this, some papers may have been offered acceptance, but then not published yet!. So,...

06 June 2018 3,262 5 View

Dear RG colleagues, do you support my opinion that reviewing papers as an editorial board member of a given journal has to be a free (non-paid) job?

As publishing scientific papers aims- at the end- to serve humanity and improve the quality of life, I think that the contribution of international reviewers and journals editorials must be free....

06 June 2018 9,293 1 View

Why does "ResearchGate" report a lower number of citations than does other sites like google scholar for the same researcher?

While research sites like google scholar, gives a number of citations for a given researchers' work, RG still provides him/ her a lower citation record.....Also, this sounds the same for the...

06 June 2018 562 4 View

To which extent publishing raw data of a started research work or its preprint on researchgate is safe in terms of privacy and copyrights?

Despite that early pre-publishing exposure & sharing of reseach data and/or drafts on researchgate credits the researcher a lot and subjects him for early peer reviewing& citations, but...

04 April 2018 1,712 0 View

Does anybody have an idea that how histone acetyl-transferase& deacetylase play an important role in chromatin remodeling during DNA transcription?

We need to understand the mechanism of chromatin remodeling in order to transcribe DNA. Of these are these two crucial enzymes

03 March 2018 8,025 3 View

I haven't worked on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) before. What extra steps would mtDNA extraction needs over genomic DNA extraction? practically i mean?

Extraction of genomic DNA is done easily by some commercial kits. I've done it many times by kits from Promega and Qiagen. What additional steps are needed for extraction of mitochondrial DNA?

03 March 2018 3,517 0 View

What is the aim behind adding "Hi- Di formamide" during the procedure of primer extension or " minisequencing" of DNA"?

Addition of Hi-Di formamide is traditionally necessary during primer extension procedure prior to samples loading in a gene analyzer...what does this step stand for?

02 February 2018 1,691 3 View

What's the lowest number of subjects to be involved in a population study to establish a reference range for a particular serum biochemical analyte?

I am intending to do some work on fasting serum insulin...my aim is to establish its reference range among people of my locality& I would be happy if i can get some useful advises about the...

02 February 2018 9,483 8 View