A Gaze on Rural Education According to Scientific Discourses during the Last Decade

بیل گیتس برای ورود به موضوع ریشه کنی فلج اطفال در بین کشورهای فقیر از طریق مطالعه اتفاقی یک مقاله روزنامه الهام گرفت. همانند بیل گیتس، دیدن مستند رمز گشایی ذهن بیل گیتس Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates برای سردبیر مجله سلامت اجتماعی نیز الهام بخش بود. چون انتظار نمی رود که سیاست گذاران، تصمیم گیران، نمایندگان مجلس و مدیران دولتی به منابع علمی که عموماً برای متخصصین رشته های مربوطه منتشر می شود، دسترسی داشته باشند. چنانچه یافته های علمی پژوهشی به زبان ساده از طریق رسانه های عمومی برای این گروه از مخاطبان و سایر افراد غیر متخصص منتشر شود، می تواند موجب آگاهی و تصمیم گیری مناسب شود. به علاوه آگاه شدن مردم از مشکلات و دامنه آنها موجب مشارکت در حل مشکل و یا مطالبه حل آن و تأثیر در برنامه ریزی دولت برای سلامت نیز می شود. از این رو هیات تحریریه مجله سلامت اجتماعی تصمیم گرفت که در هر شماره خلاصه ای از مقالات منتشر شده در حیطه های پزشکی اجتماعی، سلامت عمومی و تعیین کننده های اجتماعی سلامت را به زبان فارسی معرفی نماید. این اقدام می تواند نه تنها مورد استفاده همکاران جوان قرار گیرد، بلکه خوراک علمی لازم را برای رسانه های دیداری، شنیداری، نوشتاری و شبکه های اجتماعی فراهم نماید.

La fiabilidad de las revistas científicas

In the current academic context, the publication of research articles in scientific journals has become a requirement, not only to develop an academic career, but also to overcome different postgraduate studies. Despite this, the resources that guide people who must tackle the arduous task of publishing remain scarce. This article aims to contribute to filling this gap. To this end, it presents recommendations and good practices that are useful, mainly -although not exclusively-, to help new researchers to maximize their chances of successfully publishing in a scientific journal. In this way, this work addresses aspects related to: the writing of scientific articles; the selection of appropriate journals for publication; the process of sending the article to scientific journals; the article evaluation process by a scientific journal; and the procedure for responding to the comments of the journal reviewers.

Publishing articles in scholarly journals is an unavoidable activity for academics. Some courses require postgraduate students to publish in a journal in order to pass their classes. Some Indonesian institutions require students to publish articles in a journal before graduation and journal publication has become one of the requirements for lecturers to be promoted into a higher-ranked job. Out of these obligations, there are many benefits of publishing articles in a journal. One of these is that our thoughts and expertise will be conveyed to the public. This will attract further benefits such as being invited to be the speaker on the topic about which we have written or being invited to collaborate on further research and publications.

Students interested in Islamic scholarship face tremendous challenges in achieving scientific publications. Based on these backgrounds and problems, this study aims to discuss the success of the management of scientific publications of students interested in Islamic scholarship in Islamic higher education in Indonesia. This research applies a qualitative type with a participatory method and a SOAR analysis approach. The results and discussion of this study indicate that students who are interested in Islamic scholarship experience effectiveness in publication in scientific journals through strategic planning, governance, and strengthening the capacity of writing scientific articles. This study concludes that good management includes participation based on stakeholder aspirations, strengthening of writing trainer resources, professionalism, curriculum objectives, and support systems, so that good achievements are produced as shown by students interested in Islamic scholarship in facing the challenges of publishing articles in scientific journals. This study recommends the urgency of managing scientific publications more adequately for students interested in Islamic scholarship by administrators of Islamic higher education in Indonesia.

Introduction: The number and quality of published articles in scientific journals is one indicator of evaluation of faculty members and the research output of universities of medical sciences. This study was designed to evaluate the quantity and quality of published articles in the Journal of Knowledge and Health. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted by census sampling. Twenty-three articles from the years 1386 - 1391 were investigated. A researcher-made checklist including: authors and titles, introduction, methods, results, discussion, references, overviews, abstract, cohort study and clinical trial were designed. Descriptive statistics and test methods were used for data presentation and comparison. Results: One hundred and seventy one articles were evaluated, and the average number of articles per issue was 7.5 ± 2 articles. The average time spent from receiving a paper until its acceptance is 4 months. All articles had been obtained from the original research work, and no review article or letters to the editor was found on the issues. There were ten randomized clinical trial studies. The most complete part of articles were titles and references also were most correct unit, while the weakest part of the them was discussion. Conclusion: Results obtained from the study of journal of Knowledge and Health indicated that the journal has progressed in terms of quality over the years, but there were some shortcomings. Therefore, a set of recommendations is provided to improve the journal.

Theotonio Dos Santos (1936–2018): The Revolutionary Intellectual Who Pioneered Dependency Theory

Science relies strongly on the publication of articles in scientific journals and it is clear that decisions concer­ning which papers merit publishing should be based on a process of manuscript selection that is as objective, repeatable, reliable and transparent as possible. Manuscript selection, however, has many practical downfalls. There is considerable controversy concerning issues such as whether or not the process should be blind both for authors and reviewers in order to prevent biased selection in relation to country of origin (Budden et al., 2008), sex (Young et al., 2008) or research topic (Michaels, 2008). Another critical point is the imbalance between supply and demand of manuscripts as this likely leads to biased selection (Young et al., 2008). Also important is the issue that following rejection, the editor and reviewers of the new journal selected for would-be publication by the authors start the process from scratch, as if the opus had not already passed through a thorough process of peer review. Such rules of play seem to promote the role of sheer luck in the process of manuscript selection. Authors of a rejected paper have the growing hope of ‘greater luck’ the next time regarding reviewer assignment as they believe in the quality of their work. For the correct advancement of science I consider there should be a common global database available to editors, where each manuscript which has been subjected to an SCI journal is recorded. It should include a copy of the editor’s and reviewers’ comments, and also the authors’ replies. Hochberg et al. (2009) recently expressed their concern regarding the fact that authors usually think that manuscript submittal is a stochastic process, whereas in fact reviewers usually focus on the same set of criticisms. To solve this problem they suggest a) having colleagues reviewing a manuscript before submission, and b) requiring authors to state in a cover letter that reviewer comments from the previous submittal were taken into account. Option b is suggested as an alternative to obliging authors to declare whether or not their submission was previously rejected by another journal, because they think this could prejudice the evaluation of the new submission. However, I believe that the system I propose here would prevent prejudiced evaluations because authors would have the opportunity to upload the response to reviewer’s comments so that second-round reviewers would have the chance to see both the problems previously de­tected in the manuscript and the defence offered by authors. Although not a perfect system its benefits would probably outweigh the caveats. Such a system would improve the quality of the final paper and facilitate the work load for second-round reviewers and editors. Indeed, some journals already seem to be implementing a solution which is fairly similar to our proposal, asking authors of rejected papers for permission to forward reviewer reports to the new journal chosen by the authors to submit the revised work (see Hochberg et al., 2009). Proposals to reward or punish reviewers depending on their rapidity to elaborate their reports (Hauser & Fehr, 2007) does not foster accumulated quality improvement. Science quality would undoubtedly gain from making previous information concerning a manuscript’s review available to new reviewers, as in a Bayesian framework of inference (Martin et al., 2005) because starting a new each time, as if previous information did not exist, is simply not an efficient way to proceed in science

Scientific publication is an activity that every academician, including teachers, should carry out. Publication activities can take various forms. One form of scientific publication is the publication of articles in scientific journals. Unfortunately, the publication of articles in partner schools, namely MA Ma'arif NU Science Al-Quran Contributes, still needs to be higher. Only 9.09% of teachers have experience writing articles; the rest, or as many as 90.91% of teachers, still need to carry out article publication activities. Therefore, training activities for writing scientific journal articles are needed. Article writing training activities are carried out offline and online. The series of activities consisted of providing theory related to scientific journal articles, independent practice, and writing assistance twice. The results of the activity show that there is a slight increase in the number of teachers who can compile articles. There, 27.27% of teachers have been able to compile complete articles. There are also 72.72% of teachers who have been able to access the Open Journal System (OJS) and are able to create accounts on journals. The results of the questionnaire also showed a positive response from the teacher. The "agree" option has the highest percentage across all items in the questionnaire. The results of the questionnaire show several important conclusions: 1) The teacher feels that the whole series of training activities is helpful; 2) Writing scientific journal articles is essential; 3) Teachers think that the publication process through OJS is easy to understand. Overall, the training activities have improved teachers' abilities in compiling articles and accessing OJS, and the training activities received positive responses.

Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que verificou como se configura a produção científica oriunda de dissertações e teses na interface entre Educação Física e Educação Especial, consolidada em artigos, livros e capítulos de livros. Adotou-se como metodologia de pesquisa a análise bibliométrica. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que 58% das publicações geradas pelas dissertações/teses foram publicadas sob a forma de artigos, seguidas dos capítulos (29%) e livros (13%), confirmando o que indica a literatura de referência, ou seja, que o canal de publicação mais utilizado pelos pesquisadores para divulgar seus trabalhos é a publicação de artigo científico em periódico. Tais achados também indicaram que o ato de publicar vem tomando outras dimensões e o próprio modelo vigente de avaliação da pós-graduação conduzida pela Capes possui notória influência nesse processo que norteia a produção do conhecimento.

In this sense, this study aimed to find evidence that would allow identification and analysis of the evaluation period and publication of articles in scientific journals in the field of accounting. To achieve the proposed objectives, we performed a descriptive study using the research strategy document of eight articles in 660 journals linked to post-graduate studies in Accounting, from 2004 to 2009. The results demonstrated that the time for evaluation and publication of scientific work has increased over the period analyzed. It can be inferred that the classification of the periodic system Qualis / CAPES, the lifetime of the journal, the small number of assessors, the increase of scientific production in the area of accounting and the new evaluation policy of Qualis / CAPES as factors that affect time evaluation of the submitted articles in accounting journals.

Purpose The interest in life cycle assessment (LCA) studies has increased over the years, and one of the main ways of disseminating these studies is through the publication of articles in scientific journals. Coauthorship relations form a social network where it is possible to identify how research is organized and structured in a specific field of knowledge. This paper aims to show the spread of these studies and the configuration of a collaboration network based on coauthorship relations between researchers of LCA considering some properties of social networks.

The necessity of unification of the form of review in the process of decision-making on the publication of articles in scientific journals is explained. The experience of peer review of manuscripts in domestic scientific journals is summarized. The criteria for assessing the quality of scientific articles, a unified form of review-questionnaire, as well as examples of its application are proposed.

Research and scholarly activities have always attracted the attention of both officials and scholars, as these activities have significant impact on the country’s scientific and economic growth. Experts consider research as the infrastructure of development and describe a successful and progressive society orbiting around scientific elite and competency. A society that its decisions are supported by academic institutions, aims towards development and promotion. Health scientific production is one of the means of improving health systems in each country. The number of articles published in the health field of each country is the index of its health system development and countries are classified according to their ability to produce knowledge. Furthermore, with increase in the number of scientific publications in the field of health, the challenges and solutions will be followed and discussed in this area too. Dissemination and application of knowledge in the field of health has a direct effect on improving researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers in the health sector. Fasting is one of the topics discussed in the medical field and one of the pillars of Islam worship. According to the commands of Islam, Muslims are required to fast during the holy month of Ramadan and do a series of tasks and rituals during this month. Some of these practices entail abstaining from eating and drinking during daylight hours. This hunger and thirst during the day, raises the question that what are the impacts of fasting on human health. One of the most common methods of evaluating scientific activities is scientometrics that was introduced in Russia and grew in eastern European countries, and then all around the world. Publication of articles in scientific journals that is the result of authors and peer review work (before publication) is one of the most important examples of scientific production. Scientometrics that describes research in various scientific communities could be a useful element for policy and research management and allocation of funds and resources in sciences. This research seeks to understand the fact that whether researchers have focused on the effects of fasting on health and how much is the medical scientific production on fasting. The findings could help the Iranian and foreign researchers to understand the shortages of research on fasting in the health field. To collect data, Medline and Scopus databases were used. Medline database is one of the areas of search and retrieval of medical science that is provided by national center for biotechnology information, (NCBI) at the US national library of medicine. For searching, keywords were fasting (Mesh) and Ramadan. Scopus database is one of medical science citation databases. In order to search in the Scopus database “fasting” and “Ramadan” keywords were used. A total of 476 papers were published in the PubMed database regarding these topics. Iran’s share of total production (476 Articles) was 40 articles (4.8%), which would locate Iran in the second place after Turkey with 48 articles. The other published articles belonged to Saudi Arabia (31 articles), Tunisia (30 articles), Morocco (25 articles), the United Kingdom (24 articles), Malaysia (15 articles), Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore (14 articles each), Qatar (13 articles), France (9 articles), Egypt (8 articles), and Algeria (6 articles). The Scopus database contained 540 articles in this area. Iran’s share of total production (540 article) was 57 articles (10.5%). Turkey was in the second place with

After 30 years of experience publishing articles in scientific journals and service on editorial boards of leading journals, I accepted appointment to a three-year term as associate editor of Academy of Management Journal (AMI). Because of the trailing pipeline, the job actually extended beyond four years, during which I served as action-editor on over 300 submitted manuscripts, over 60 of which went through revision. As I became immersed in the role, I was surprised myself at some basic things I had not known about the refereeing process despite having published dozens of articles. This essay is intended to help young colleagues learn these things earlier than I did. I'm assuming the reader has read some of the basic books (e.g., Huff, 1999) and edited volumes (e.g., Cummings & Frost, 1995; Baruch, Sullivan, & Schepmyer, 2006) regarding the publication process, and especially specific chapters focused on the relationship between editor and author from both points of view (e.g., Daft, 1985; Zahra & Neubaum, 2006). Indeed, the availability of so much useful material gives me the feeling of, "Here we go again, one more time: How does one navigate the review process successfully?"