The standards of scholarly publications are evolving to meet the ever-growing demands of digital communications globally. Current authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers face numerous challenges, which can be overcome through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) aimed at advancing skills in research reporting and communicating with the global scientific community. The best scientific t...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...

The majority of research publications in the area of Critical Infrastructure Protection are focused on abstract modelling and simulation efforts. One notable side effect is the large number of proposed models and methodologies contrasted with a comparably small number of publications dedicated to validating or even applying these in the field. Most research papers on the subject limit themselve...

It is crucial to promote interdisciplinary research and recommend collaborators from different research fields via academic database analysis. This paper addresses a problem to characterize researchers’ interests with a set of diverse research topics found in a large-scale academic database. Specifically, we first use latent Dirichlet allocation to extract topics as distributions over words fro...

The industrial world and the academic world have grown far apart. The distance between the worlds primarily originates from different goals and different means of support. This is a problem in the areas of systems engineering and multi-disciplinary design. These areas are relatively young, providing lots of opportunity for research. Education in this area is scarce. Publications are tangible ex...

Publications Consultant, Sideview, Princes Risborough, UK Visiting Professor, University of Split, Croatia Former Chair, Committee on Publication Ethics (2009-12) If the purpose of medical journals is to disseminate research findings, it might seem illogical that editors generally forbid multiple publication of the same data in different journals. However, there are three important reasons why ...

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OBJECT Various bibliometric indices based on the citations accumulated by scholarly articles, including the h-index, g-index, e-index, and Google's i10-index, may be used to evaluate academic productivity in neurological surgery. The present article provides a comprehensive assessment of recent academic publishing output from 103 US neurosurgical residency programs and investigates intradepartm...

BACKGROUND Nursing and midwifery education have comparatively recently moved into academia in Ireland. In 2002, nurse tutors who were qualified to Master's degree level assimilated into the third-level sector. Only 11 of the 35 staff (31%) in one university School held, or were undertaking, a PhD. In 2006, children's nursing and midwifery tutors also moved into third-level institutions. The cul...

Chairpersons of pathology often are viewed as departmental role models in academic medical centers. To objectify this view, we undertook a systematic survey of publication records and professional certification among 126 chairpersons in the United States. The median of the total number of scientific publications by the cohort was 105 since graduation from medical school, and the median yearly n...