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How would researchers benefit if Research Gate adds an academic publishing functionality to the platform?

Research Gate as social media platform for researchers doesn’t have an academic publishing functionality with peer-reviewed articles. Researches on this platform could be vetted to function as...

08 August 2019 9,320 9 View

Which handbooks, guidelines or platforms do you use to improve your research and writing? Which would you recommend to other researchers and writers?

In science, scientific writing as a tool to produce, communicate and preserve scientific results is important and so are books and other sources that show us how to do it. The Chicago Manual of...

07 July 2019 5,421 25 View

Is there a theory of the composition of successful shopping streets in inner cities or important literature about it?

Urban Sociology deals very much with the development of inner cities. The Chicago School of Urban Sociology is famous for its approach about the subject. Aspects such as social alienation, class...

08 August 2015 8,177 6 View

The practice of citation pushing

Reviewers have the power to block the publishing of papers they are reviewing if their suggestions to cite their own work or that of their network is not complied with, see:...

01 January 1970 2,056 12 View

What is the state of the art of Public Administration? And what will it be in the future?

The Philosophy of Public Administration. Philosophy looks in a rational way at aspects such as knowledge (epistemology), existence (metaphysics), methodology (logic and language), values (ethics)...

01 January 1970 6,184 14 View

Sleep learning as opportunity for learning

In the Special Collector’s Edition of Scientific American Summer 2019 there is an article about sleep learning, learning while you are asleep. There are different tales that learning can happen...

01 January 1970 2,780 12 View

How do you learn and which learning theories are the closest to your learning practices?

In science and in live, knowledge creation and knowledge acquisition (learning) are very important. Learning or knowledge acquisition can be seen as behavior modification through interventions to...

01 January 1970 2,235 37 View

What is the best way to promote entrepreneurship in the different African countries?

Entrepreneurship is a tool to further economic development in a country and in African countries more entrepreneurship is needed. But how to promote it? And which are the countries to turn to...

01 January 1970 2,600 7 View

Does African philosophy exist?

Plato, Socrates, Kant are some names which come to mind when we talk about Western philosophy and Loa Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Sun Yat-Sen, Ghandi are some when discussing Eastern philosophy. But...

01 January 1970 4,708 37 View

Measuring the scientific character of a theory

'When should a theory be ranked as scientific?' This question was put forward by Sir Karl Popper in his contribution to the book 'Philosophy of Science' (Martin Curd & J.A. Cover, ed. 2012)...

01 January 1970 8,799 21 View