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We hear a lot of criticisms concerning "open access" journals or predatory publishers of journals who charge money to publish the works of scholarly academics. However, there is not much being...
03 March 2015 5,310 14 View
Many of you have published articles with coauthors. I have also published articles with several coauthors across various academic fields. Nevertheless, the process of publishing a quality academic...
08 August 2014 882 29 View
Academic fields have changed and advanced over the past few decades. Some of the non-philosophy fields offering doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees appear to have little to do with epistemology, a...
08 August 2014 8,566 51 View
There are millions of books published over the centuries. Nevertheless, some books continue to be read for decades, and centuries for some, after they have been published. I am very curious as to...
07 July 2014 7,120 52 View
Imagine an article published in 2013 has been cited 12 times, is this good? What does this reflect in terms of the citation trend for this particular article? More importantly, how many citations...
07 July 2014 4,033 90 View
When a plagiarism software program has yielded a false positive that has led to a serious (and career threatening) accusation against an innocent person, there is little that can be done to...
06 June 2014 4,528 16 View
I've heard arguments that a Likert-type scale is ordinal data. I've heard arguments that this type of data is interval data. Some believe it is quasi-ordinal-interval data. Which exactly is it?
06 June 2014 667 101 View
There are several methods to determine the difficulty index or easiness index of a set of test questions. Nevertheless, there are conflicting views as to when a test question should be thrown...
06 June 2014 1,791 6 View
Conflict can be either psychological or social. Both types of conflict require that a person or group of persons select among favorable or unfavorable options. Therefore, which is easier to...
06 June 2014 8,291 11 View
In terms of merit pay, promotion, and or tenure consideration, should the author of a textbook have equal weight as the author of a paper published in a top tier journal?
05 May 2014 1,036 20 View
Given the need for faculty members to publish their ideas or perish from the university, some academic journal editors and reviewers might abuse their roles. What behaviors, therefore, constitute...
05 May 2014 4,872 15 View
In lieu of the intellectual contributions required of faculty working at AACSB accredited business schools, deans and department heads are often conflicted by how just to evaluate and reward the...
05 May 2014 1,079 8 View
College and department faculty have a hard time defining the academic journal review process followed by different academic journals. What exactly does editorial review, blind review, blind-peer...
05 May 2014 7,201 2 View
Impact factor is for many a proxy for journal quality and represents the influence a particular journal has on the literature. Nevertheless, when a paper is cited frequently but is published in a...
05 May 2014 2,957 1 View
When it comes to annual evaluations and consideration for merit pay increases, not being first author on a coauthored academic paper can be an issue between evaluator and the person being...
05 May 2014 8,333 9 View
