Gunasingham Mikunthan

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Is self citation unethical and cannot be accountable?

There are evidences self citation is found in research articles and treated as unethical. There are cases where the article published previously has information that are relevant to the present...

02 February 2019 4,555 14 View

Is any plagiarism checkers available for non-English medium and is it possible ?

As I understand there are many plagiarism checking softwares available for the content in English however is also another threat to check similarities/duplications in non-English contents. In...

02 February 2019 8,424 1 View

Is ranking of the institutes in a country of having free education encounter problems for lowering them without any reason ?

Ranking of institutes depends numbers of sources and one of which is quality education. However ranking depends on the graduate performance, human and infrastructural resources and for a better...

12 December 2018 292 1 View

Is it permissible to study two degrees at a time at the same or different institute?

It is nowadays found that students are in parallel register two degrees at a time and struggle to complete either of them on time. Some one claim that the knowledge to gather research students are...

12 December 2018 5,180 0 View

Most of the researches in applied sciences do not have an outcome of any application viz. a product or commercialization, How do we entrust this?

Most of the researches in applied sciences do not end up with an application - developing either a feasible technique, a product or commercialization. Instead the results and conclusions are...

01 January 2018 6,984 3 View

Will it be possible for a person involves in supervising large number of students for M.Phil and Ph.D alone at a time? Is there a limit with reasons?

Some people especially in selected disciplines supervise large number of students ( eg more than 20 students) at a time for M.Phil and Ph D degress ? Its totally depends on the amount of time the...

04 April 2017 9,181 3 View

Is breaking down of research problem of PhD acceptable and to request undergrads to do the pieces of work?

Is it wise to breakdown a PhD and MPhil research works in to pieces and giving to Uuergrads to carry out the research and after completion the results are incorporated in the PhD and MPhil thesis....

08 August 2013 2,627 12 View

Is there any research findings or evidence that show pesticides are the direct cause for cancer?

As we know the increased incidence of cancer is related with the use/application of enormous amount of pesticides to the crops. Though it is claimed here and there but finding a strong evidence...

08 August 2013 5,769 6 View

Why Fusarium sp is not being used as biocontrol agent commercially although there are many records about its potential on insect control?

Fusarium sp in general is believed to be a complex group of fungi and main cause of plant diseases like Panama wilt, and other wilt or rot. However there are good research reports claiming the...

08 August 2013 4,983 6 View

How do the researchers screen out the inappropriate and low quality mushrooming journals?

Can someone suggest a mechanism to screen out unauthenticated mushrooming journals and to assist the researchers to publish their works in appropriate journals.

07 July 2013 5,559 14 View

Does the applied research bears the responsibility in its application or being in the journals as a high quality research article?

There is a debate among researcher in the applied field that the research findings should carry the message that can be applied and the results should be benefited by the society. Instead few...

07 July 2013 818 1 View