Quality Of Published Research Research Articles

The Research Growth Rate (2019-2020) of Forty Countries in the Field of Earth and Planetary Science Research

The project is designed to explore the research output of the world’s top forty countries in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences from 2010 to 2020. The data in the field of earth and planetary sciences for each country was retrieved from Scopus. Based on the number of publications (in 2020), the top three most productive countries are China (n = 39236), United States (n = 27889), and United Kingdom (n = 10784). However, based on the growth rate (for 2019-2020), the top three countries are Pakistan (n = 38.86), Indonesia (n = 31.36), and Finland (n = 22.00). In 2013-14 and 2010-11, Pakistan was in the 3rd position. While for the years (2015-2018) Pakistan occupied the 2nd position. This motivated us to decode the research productivity of Pakistan since independence (1947). The total number of publications was found to be 4972, where 8814 authors and 10445 institutes significantly contributed. The University of Peshawar was the most productive university with 584 publications. Pakistan produced 90.50 % (n = 4500) publications in the 21st century (after 2000). The astonishing growth could be attributed to several reasons, for example, the establishment of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, Pakistan, an increase in total expenditure on higher education, an increase in international collaboration, etc. At the same time (in 2020), Pakistan has a meagre global share of only 0.178 % (total global production is 2,790,854). This confirms that significant measures are needed to increase the overall productivity (both the number and quality of research publication.

Enhancing Peer Review Standards for Quality Research Publications

Enhancing Peer Review Standards for Quality Research Publications

Predicting the impact of no. of authors on no. of citations of research publications based on neural networks

Any work's citations are regarded as a key characteristic that leads to its appraisal and study. Citations are one of the most important indicators of a research publication's quality. Citations can have a favorable or bad impact on any piece of work or publication depending on a variety of circumstances, including author skill, publication venue, research topic, and so on. The goal of this study is to see how the number of co-authors affects the number of citations in research papers. There will be a correlation analysis between the number of co-authors and the number of citations for research articles, and we will observe how the number of co-authors affects the number of citations for publications. Citation data is gathered from databases such as DBLP, ACM, MAG (Microsoft Academic Graph), and others. There are 629,814 papers and 632,752 citations in the initial version. We use two methods to examine the impact of co-author count on the number of citations in a research paper: (i) Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC), and (ii) multiple regression (MR). To test the impact of co-author count on citation count of research publications, we calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient (ra) between the two variables number of authors (NA) and citation count (CC). We also calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the citation count (CC) and the most effective variables to compare between the impact of the number of authors and the impact of the other factors such as (i) rc between number of countries (NC) and citation count (CC). (ii) rv between venue category (VC) and citation count (CC). (iii) ry between Year_From (YF) and citation count (CC). Empirical evidence shows that co-authored publications achieve higher visibility and impact. To predict the number of citations from the previously mentioned factors (NA, NC, VC, and YF), we use multiple linear regression (MLR). The goal of multiple linear regression (MLR) is to model the linear relationship between the explanatory (independent) variables and response (dependent) variables. The higher R-square, the tight relationship exists between dependent variables and independent variables. It is observed that the R-square decreases in the case of removing NA which means that the NA is the most influential factor (the relation between NA and CC is the most powerful relation). The main originality of this paper is to introduce an effective prediction module (EPM) which uses probabilistic neural network (PNN) to predict the number of citations from the most effective factors (NA, NC, VC, and YF).

Responsibilities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Human Factors in the Digital Age.

Today's challenges for scientific publications require operating at a time when trust in science depends upon effective vetting of data, identifying questionable practices, and scrutinizing research.The Editor-in-Chief has an invaluable opportunity to influence the direction and reputation of our field but also has the responsibility to confront contemporary trends that threaten the publication of quality research. The editor is responsible for maintaining strict scientific standards for the journal through the exercise of good judgment and steadfast commitment to upholding the highest ethical principles. Opportunities exist to create and implement new initiatives for improving the peer review process and elevating the journal's stature. The journal must address the challenges as well as effectively communicate with the public, who seek a reliable source of information.

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International Virtual Conference on Bridging Innovative Trends in Mathematics, Engineering & Technology-BITMET’20Bridging Innovative Trends in Mathematics, Engineering & Technology-BITMET’20M.parimalaDr. G.M. Arun PrasathDr. Waseem Ghazi AlshantiDr. E. BalamuruganDr. Renuka MohanrajK.Palani1 Department of Mathematics, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode, tamilnadu, India.2 University of Technology andApplied Sciences, Oman3 Jubail University College, King SaudiArabia4 University of Africa, NIGERIA5 Maharishi InternationalUniversity-Fairfield, USA6 PG & Research Department of Mathematics,A.P.C.Mahalaxmi College for Women, Thoothukudi, TN,IndiaInternational Virtual Conference on Bridging Innovative Trends in Materials Science (BITMS-2020) provides a global platform for academics, researchers and students to share their knowledge, work and experiences both through the presentations/posters from the conference and dissemination of high quality research publications in the areas of Mathematics, Engineering & Technology. This acts as an international forum for researchers and scholars to have face-to-face interactions with an eminent speakers and experts to discuss the most recent innovations, trends and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Mathematics, Engineering & Technology.Dr. G.M. Arun Prasath University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman ‘Applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in Science and Technology’ Dr. Waseem Ghazi Alshanti Jubail University College, King Saudi Arabia ‘On the Horizontal Deviation of a Spinning Projectile Penetrating into Granular Systems’ Dr. E. Balamurugan, University of Africa, NIGERIA ‘Role of Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence’ Dr. Renuka Mohanraj, Maharishi International University-Fairfield, USA ‘Internet of Things for Android’International Virtual Conference on Bridging Innovative Trends in Mathematics, Engineering & Technology-BITMET’20, Organizing Committee, Convener, Coordinators, Internal Members, International Technical Committee Members and this titles are available in this pdf.

PROFESSIONAL DEMANDS OF LECTURING JOB ON HUMAN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATION FOR RAISING PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATORS IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

The place of lecturing job in achieving the nation’s developmental strides through skilled manpower development is critical and exigent. Accordingly, the need for professional development of lecturers who occupy key academic positions in tertiary institutions in Nigeria, for effective and efficient performance of their professional roles, and in subsequent realization of the nation’s developmental aspirations is a worthy investment. Thus, the main thrust of this paper was to carefully examine the professional demands of lecturing job on human capacity development and its implication on raising professional business educators in Nigerian tertiary institutions, via education policies and relevant literature reviews. Human capacity development in this sense is the consistent enhancement of knowledge, skills, work attitude, competences and experiences of academic staff of tertiary institutions to enable them perform optimally in their lecturing profession. Achieving the above stated aim was premised on the urgent demand to consistently develop lecturers or business educators’ professional capacity in order to sharpen their professional teaching skills through relevant teacher education and qualification, professional membership affiliation to ensure strict compliance of practice to professional standards, quality research publications for development purposes, utilization of retraining programmes for professional knowledge update, ICT training for adaptive and innovative pedagogical approaches for effective job performance in the new normal. The study finally highlighted a plethora of inhibiting factors confronting professional capacity development of lecturers for optimal performance, and also made a few relevant recommendations.

Understanding GI Twitter and Its Major Contributors

Understanding GI Twitter and Its Major Contributors

Quality Research Publications – Need of the Hour

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RANKING FRAMEWORKS AND QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: SOME MISSING LINKS

The paper attempts to rediscover some missing links between the ranking metrics of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and their quality. Two global ranking frameworks, The Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds and the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for Indian HEIs are considered for a comparative assessment. We notice that research indicators and perception are the most important determinants of performances of HEIs worldwide. Surprisingly, there are no metrics to reflect the quality of teaching-learning, which can act as a dis-incentive for quality teaching. The paper also presents an in-depth case study of NIRF in India and applies a different methodology of ranking using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on NIRF data published in June 2020. We find that out of 101 HEIs, ranks of only six HEIs match. We identify the factors explaining the differences between the two sets of ranks using Tobit regression model. Important findings suggest that in relative terms, PCA gives more importance to impact of research and inclusivity of students, whereas in NIRF, quality of research publications and the scale of HEIs are more important. We suggest more flexibility by proposing three separate tracks-one each for teaching, research and administration. This would give choice to faculty to focus on either teaching, research or administration where their predominant interest lies and thereby would enhance the quality of education.

Academic Reading and Writing Needs of Undergraduate Nursing Students in Research

Like other students of any discipline, nursing students are taught to develop and enhance their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills. They are being trained for their future nursing responsibilities in the clinical or community-based facilities and are empowered to create positive changes in healthcare through the conduct and publication of quality research. However, conducting and publishing quality research could be challenging for many nursing students as these entail a myriad of skills, including reading and writing in the discipline. This study investigated students’ needs in academic reading and writing in nursing research using sequential-explanatory mixed methods design. Quantitative data were first gathered through a self-administered questionnaire from a group of 18 nursing students. Afterward, six conveniently selected students from the same group were subjected to a semi-structured interview conducted online. Descriptive statistics such as Mean and Standard Deviation and content analysis were employed as data analyses for the survey and interview data. The following are the findings of the study: (1) on academic reading, nursing students’ needs include organizing literature items reviewed, and synthesizing general concepts to generate a new idea; and (2) on academic writing, students’ needs encompass the use of correct grammar, paraphrasing, adherence to a publication format, and confidence in academic writing. The study draws pedagogical implications for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom, suggesting that language teachers employ explicit teaching of reading strategies that facilitate critical reading and teach academic writing both at the micro and macro levels. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.5.20

Fate of environmental pollutants.

This annual review covers the literature published in 2018 on topics related to the occurrence and fate of environmental pollutants in wastewater. Due to the vast amount of literature published on this topic, we have discussed only a portion of the quality research publications, due to the limitation of space. The abstract search was carried out using Web of Science, and the abstracts were selected based on their relevance. In a few cases, full-text articles were referred to understand new findings better. This review is divided into the following sections: antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARBs) and antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs), disinfection by-products (DBPs), drugs of abuse (DoAs), estrogens, heavy metals, microplastics, per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS), pesticides, and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), with the addition of two new classes of pollutants to previous years (DoAs and PFAS).

Recommendation system based on deep learning methods: a systematic review and new directions

These days, many recommender systems (RS) are utilized for solving information overload problem in areas such as e-commerce, entertainment, and social media. Although classical methods of RS have achieved remarkable successes in providing item recommendations, they still suffer from many issues such as cold start and data sparsity. With the recent achievements of deep learning in various applications such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and image processing, more efforts have been made by the researchers to exploit deep learning methods for improving the performance of RS. However, despite the several research works on deep learning based RS, very few secondary studies were conducted in the field. Therefore, this study aims to provide a systematic literature review (SLR) of deep learning based RSs that can guide researchers and practitioners to better understand the new trends and challenges in the field. This paper is the first SLR specifically on the deep learning based RS to summarize and analyze the existing studies based on the best quality research publications. The paper particularly adopts an SLR approach based on the standard guidelines of the SLR designed by Kitchemen-ham which uses selection method and provides detail analysis of the research publications. Several publications were gathered and after inclusion/exclusion criteria and the quality assessment, the selected papers were finally used for the review. The results of the review indicated that autoencoder (AE) models are the most widely exploited deep learning architectures for RS followed by the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) models. Also, the results showed that Movie Lenses is the most popularly used datasets for the deep learning-based RS evaluation followed by the Amazon review datasets. Based on the results, the movie and e-commerce have been indicated as the most common domains for RS and that precision and Root Mean Squared Error are the most commonly used metrics for evaluating the performance of the deep leaning based RSs.

Publication trends in Gynecologic Oncology: A 45-year history

Objective: Production and publication of quality research is critical to advancements in gynecologic cancer prevention and care. Gynecologic Oncology has been the leading journal in the field since its first issue in 1972. This study sought to evaluate trends in categories of articles published in Gynecologic Oncology over time.

A Systematic Mapping Study on Customer Loyalty and Brand Management

Customer loyalty is a topic of great interest for marketing scholars due to its importance in gaining sustainable competitive advantages and financial outcomes. Literature is prolific of works regarding customer loyalty and brand management. In order to improve the quantity and quality of research publications, research themes mapping of published studies is required. The aim of this paper is to provide scholars with a systematization and mapping of the contributions on this topic to develop an effective research road map for future research. A bibliometric analysis and a mapping study have been conducted on 337 publications on customer loyalty and brand management from 2000 to 2018. The results present the most cited works on the topic, an evaluation map showing the most frequent and cited words and six clusters of words based on their co-occurrence. From the analysis of the clusters, the most relevant research findings, trends, and issues emerge, suggesting interesting theoretical and practical implications.

Approaches for increasing quality of research publications in Ayurveda

Approaches for increasing quality of research publications in Ayurveda

Current Trends and the Consequences of Research Activities among Chinese Universities

China continues to be one of the world’s largest producers of academic re-search papers contributing massively to national and international journals annually. To maintain such a position, the government put up policies and practices to ensure that actors and all universities engage in research activities. However, this initiative which was initially aimed at motivating and encouraging research participation seems to be pressuring researchers. Hence, this study employed a qualitative approach to extensively review existing literature to determine the current research trends and the consequences of the pressure to engage in research activities among Chinese top-rated universities. Using a Skinner’s operant conditioning theory, the study found out that China’s research activities have significantly improved, however, it may be to a cost of research misconduct as well as negligence of other academic activities of equal importance. This study recommends a new approach that promotes and adds to the current ethical research activities and brings about a paradigm shift from quantity to quality research publications for professional evaluation purposes.

Fate of Environmental Pollutants.

This annual review covers the literature published in 2017 on topics related to the occurrence and fate of emerging environmental pollutants in wastewater. Due to the vast amount of literature published on this topic, we have discussed only a portion of the quality research publications, due to the limitation of space. The abstract search was carried out using Web of Science, and the abstracts were selected based on their relevance. In few cases, full-text articles were referred to better understand new findings. This review is divided into the following sections: antibioticresistant bacteria (ARBs) and antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs), disinfection by-products (DBPs), estrogens, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), and microplastics, a new section added this year.

Publish or Perish: Māori, Pāsifika, and International Indigenous Scholars’ Critical Contribution to Public Debates Through the Invited NZARE Symposium, International Organisations Session, AERA 2017, San Antonio, Texas

The commentary centres on the preparation and collaboration of Māori, Tongan, nehiyaw, and Native Hawaiian cognoscenti for AERA 2017 (Kēpa et al. in International Organisation Sessions at American Education Research Association Conference, San Antonio, 2016, 2017). In the contemporary era where publish or perish has become the dictum for academics amid the mushrooming of numerous journals, the New Zealand Education Act (1989) offers sanctuary, par excellence, for Indigenous scholars to collaborate. The Act offers the burgeoning forte of Indigenous cognoscenti, neutral positions beyond the received wisdom for the publication of quality research, exemplary enthusiasm and devotion to good spirits interwoven with affection and sympathy for other people. Thereby, the Indigenous scholars are provided impartial platforms, where the outcome of our relentless toil to know Indigenous wisdoms and western science finds expression in writing collaboratively. Propitiously, the Act enables the scholarly community to publish, not only for purely informational value; the law enables our writing of appreciation for beautiful ideas, values and things. Critically, the Indigenous scholars are enabled to publish with the purpose to perish prevailing beliefs that Indigenous knowledges do not proffer ‘truth’ or scientific fact.

Fate of Environmental Pollutants.

This annual review covers the literature published in 2016 on topics related to the occurrence and fate of emerging environmental pollutants in wastewater. Due to the vast amount of literature published on this topic, we have discussed only a portion of the quality research publications, due to limitation of space. The abstract search was carried out using Web of Science, and the abstracts were selected based on their relevance. In few cases, fulltext articles were referred to better understand new findings. This review is divided into the following sections: Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARBs) and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs), disinfection by-products (DBPs), estrogens, nanomaterials, pathogens, perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), and other pollutants.

Solutions to scholarly publishing in social sciences and humanities

Publishing scientific research is very important in contributing to the knowledge of a discipline and in sharing experience among scientists. However, there are few studies to find solutions to improve the quantity and quality of research publications, especially those in the fields of social sciences and humanities. This case study aims at finding the difficulties that lecturers from different faculties and departments of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City have encountered in publishing their research. Based on the survey data, the study suggests practical solutions to enhance Vietnamese researchers’ national and international publications in order to meet integration challenges.