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Please answer in terms of requiring a minimum H-index for academic jobs.
07 July 2014 1,582 36 View
Starting any new scientific project in present-day Ukraine is challenging. There is a high level of uncertainty about the future due to the current situation.
05 May 2014 2,582 2 View
Perhaps it’s going too far, but discriminated is how many researchers feel when submitting their manuscripts to American or European academic journals. Sure that the problem is due to the type of...
04 April 2014 1,312 18 View
Basically what scholarly journals do to maximize exposure and find content (authors and papers) is indexing them in data bases and directories, whether they are recognized journals, or new and...
04 April 2014 829 6 View
Both require very different skills to scientists, but have the same relevance for the quality of any scientific paper, don't they?
03 March 2014 9,593 10 View
Many experienced researchers will wonder about the value of publishing academic articles in non-indexed journals, but if your research is not first class and you are trying to build your...
03 March 2014 2,597 1 View
So much that it’s almost the only directory that is taken into account to evaluate the quality excellence of research or publications, except for a few fields of knowledge such as engineering, as...
03 March 2014 3,230 6 View
Sometimes it's not clear which specific use make researchers of some web tools and to what stage of the research process correspond.
03 March 2014 4,442 3 View
I have unfinished business: to improve my articles’ citation metrics. The idea that currently exists in academia, if you want to do something and not just stand still and be passive, is to obtain...
02 February 2014 4,963 6 View
When I see the academic tools on the market to help researchers, rather than scare me, I get depressed and think: will I be doing my best? Could I do it better?
02 February 2014 4,448 3 View
The current system of assessment of research quality has always created controversy in academia, and it’s true that there are many professors who do not need to publish to be good educators. But...
02 February 2014 8,057 9 View
You go to academic conferences to stay updated about your field of knowledge, to share your research manuscripts with your peers and to do some networking in order to identify academic with same...
01 January 2014 7,980 6 View
Academic life is complicated: you collaborate with others, do research for years, analyze the information, write a draft and at the end when you manage to publish in a high-impact journal, you...
01 January 2014 9,174 4 View
The process of publishing a research paper in an academic journal is stretched a little more if you are a non-native English speaker, because you have to translate or revise the wording of the...
01 January 2014 6,253 25 View
The war between authors and academic publishing houses about research papers and Open Access were coming brewing for some time, but it has just exploded: Elsevier is asking authors to remove their...
01 January 2014 9,163 16 View
Why do you attend conferences? For improving the academic curriculum? For networking and travelling? For testing the research before sending the manuscript to be published in peer-reviewed...
12 December 2013 1,730 87 View
Getting citations is becoming increasingly important to the academic career of a researcher or professor, so worrying about them is logical. SEO is a marketing methodology that improves network...
12 December 2013 1,087 4 View
Selecting the right journal for your academic paper is like meeting friends. You have to know what kind of scientific article and research you have, write the article with the necessary...
12 December 2013 2,923 13 View
Being a teacher is not easy, because it requires you to have some formal training and that during your academic career you do many multidisciplinary activities, as teaching, and do it well, being...
12 December 2013 7,922 0 View
It seems incredible but it’s still this way, journals are the best indicators of research quality according to our latest survey. Researchers believe that Google Scholar (H-Index) is still...
11 November 2013 5,708 10 View
My last paper has just been published in a Q1 Journal listed at JCR Thomson, and you? What is your methodology to select journals?
11 November 2013 1,364 1 View
The literature review is an issue that is always left to the end or given no importance from the beginning. Although in some ways it is always done, because you have to be documented first,...
11 November 2013 538 5 View
The academic journal model to ensure the quality of published papers will always be in question, especially now with the last fraud scandals that have appeared; furthermore, the current open...
11 November 2013 1,255 1 View
By means that can be assessed as of quality, of course.
11 November 2013 2,401 10 View
Alternative models to measure the quality of research are the personal citation indexes (H-index). Is that true?
10 October 2013 8,700 37 View
To what extent do journals have to improve their governance?
10 October 2013 3,726 2 View
Self-citation is seen as a form of self-promotion, and thus looked down on it in academia, so why do we still do it? Are we obliged to do it due to the fierce competition in academia?
09 September 2013 5,846 54 View
I think that the quality of any paper is given by the research activity, methodology used and contribution, which should the center of all this, not the writing of the article. The writing would...
09 September 2013 8,294 21 View
There must be something behind it because editors and scientists still don’t rely entirely on open access journals
09 September 2013 230 8 View
Concerning the business model of scientific journals: Is it possible to earn money from them? Or are they for something else?
08 August 2013 2,736 2 View
What are the incentives in place (if any)?
08 August 2013 3,682 19 View
Open access (OA) journals has been one of the main drivers of change in the academic publishing world in the last decades, and OA will still shape the future of assessment of research quality and...
08 August 2013 9,344 48 View
What about training, reading more books and papers, going to a conference, doing more research, spending more quality time with students...
08 August 2013 4,673 7 View
Peer review is a learning experience, a way to build yor network and an obligation to stay updated in your reserach field.
07 July 2013 9,239 2 View
The accumulation of power in indexed journals and the competition amongst the academics, are creating a class struggle?
07 July 2013 1,714 5 View
The newest trick of cyber criminals is putting up fraudulent websites of reputable science journals asking for author fees Please suggest tips for caution, as check journals, ask peers, connect...
07 July 2013 9,272 4 View
Indexed journals have been adding high value to all academic stakeholders, will they be?.
07 July 2013 6,951 11 View
Change minds at class or improve the world researching?
06 June 2013 7,034 9 View
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06 June 2013 3,346 1 View
+4/5 years to get a MSc and PhD. +3 years aprox. to become lecturer, after doing some research/publications as assistant +3/4 years to earn a full-time position as a lecturer, if you get a...
06 June 2013 4,831 1 View
I particularly rely on indexed journals, impact factor is not my priority, but open access it is. Then I try to get to the editors that I have better access and are more available.
05 May 2013 2,140 9 View
Which of them do you think have more possibilities in the future?
05 May 2013 3,716 29 View
"Soft (subjective factors) is hard and hard (objective factors) is soft” is also true when publishing in journals, isn't it?
05 May 2013 1,895 14 View
One way to increase your chances to publish in peer reviewed journals is networking and listening to them, do you do it?
05 May 2013 2,659 1 View
