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Q: Why is ethics important for social research?

  • Asked on December 14, 2019

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it is important to protect the integrity, respect rights and and privacy of your participants
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Q: What is meant by citations of a research article published in a journal or conference paper?

Detailed question-Also, what are h-index and i10-index? What is self-citation of a published paper? What is your opinion about someone who uses a lot of self-citations?
  • Asked on November 17, 2019

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You have asked several questions around citations. I understand you are keen to know more about various aspects of…

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Q: Can researchers be objective? If yes, why do you think so?

  • Asked on November 8, 2019

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Q: Can researchers be objective? If yes, why do you think so?

 

Let’s first clarify several principles that guide an answer to this…

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Q: what are the types of background research in a thesis?

Detailed question-I know what is background research, but I want to know about the different types of background research that can be used for a thesis.
  • Asked on November 7, 2019

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This question focuses on how to present data from prior, similar investigations. 

The foundation of an article’s results…

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Q: Is submitting a thesis chapter to a journal considered duplicate submission?

Detailed question-Is it regarded as a duplicate submission if I submit the part of my doctoral thesis (one chapter) to a journal? I changed the language, and did some paraphrasing and…
  • Asked on November 5, 2019

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It is an acceptable practice to convert an entire thesis or parts of it into one or more articles and publish in a journal. Most journals will not have any issues…

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Q: Can I copy articles of partnership?

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I'm not really sure what you mean by "articles of partnership"? Are you referring to co-authored articles? Or do you want to copy content from articles on the topic…

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Q: Is it duplicate submission if I write a paper using the data from an earlier published paper?

Detailed question-I am going to write a new paper reusing data from a paper which was submitted before. The purpose of the study is different between the two papers, but analysis methods…
  • Asked on October 17, 2019

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Usually publishing the result of the same dataset is considered as overlapping publication. Especially if the raw data, main study findings, and conclusion of both…

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Q: Is it wrong to publish conference papers in journals?

Detailed question-A colleague was queried for publishing a paper that he had already presented an a conference in a journal. The argument was that once an article is presented at a…

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It is not clear from your question whether your colleague's study was published in the conference proceedings. While it is perfectly acceptable to publish a study…

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Q: Can I submit a review paper loosely based on my own accepted short communications article?

Detailed question-I submitted an original paper, and it was accepted as a short version on the editor’s suggestion. So now, it will be published as a report, short communications, or…
  • Asked on September 13, 2019

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You seem to have the right idea of how to go about doing this. So, apart from citing the letter…

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Q: Can I publish a case report that is already accepted by an English journal in a Japanese journal?

Detailed question-Can I publish the case report, which has been already accepted by an English journal, in another Japanese journal also? I want to use the same figures (pictures of the…
  • Asked on September 2, 2019

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A translation of an article already published in another language can be published in an international English language journal and vice versa as a secondary…

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