the object of this study is to survey and compare the citing behavior of chemical doctoral students in tehran and tarbiat modarres universities. this study clarifies the characteristics of cited resources and determines their differences and similarities. the methodology of this study is citation analysis and 6382 citations from 60 dissertations have been analyzed. findings suggest that the mos...

The preparation and publication of dissertations can be viewed as a subsystem of scholarly communication, and the treatment of data that support doctoral research can be mapped in a very controlled manner to the data curation lifecycle. Dissertation datasets represent “low-hanging fruit” for universities who are developing institutional data collections. The current workflow for processing elec...

Given the young age of game studies, the recent history and development of the field remains largely unstudied. This paper takes a closer look at 34 games-related Finnish doctoral dissertations published between 1998 and 2012. The metareview explores the diverse starting points scholars have taken to study games during the years. The results show that instead of any particular national focus, t...

Aim/Purpose The purpose of the research was to examine function and application delimitations—what researcher includes excludes in a study—in dissertation process. aim map delimitations process improve research, rigor relevance findings, doctoral completion rates using formalized standardized approach applied flexibly. Background All is bounded whether formally defined or not. Unlike limitation...

Abstract Doctoral education is a key feature of university systems, as well basic foundation scientific practice. That period culminates in dissertation and examination the candidate that has been studied from several points view. This paper reports results an analysis on evolution characteristics gender imbalance complete doctoral system for wide time. Data database Teseo was used order to ide...

No research column would be complete or responsive to the needs of young adult teachers, researchers and enthusi­ asts without a review of the wealth of recent dissertations involving the study of young adult literature. Thus, the theme of this column is to bring to readers of The ALAN Review an informative summary of significant masters and doctoral dissertations completed in the last five yea...

he purpose of this paper is to explore and provide extended details on the Delphi technique research design. The focus was primarily on the doctoral student researcher audience because the Delphi technique appears to be coming increasingly popular as a research design for doctoral dissertations. The classical Delphi technique is described as well as a number of variations in design. To illustra...

This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school. ASCI dissertation series number 324.