For academics, the goal is not only to publish their name in print but to make an impact in society and scientific community. For this purpose, published research has to be disseminated properly. Most journals do disseminate their published articles in many ways, but authors can boost dissemination of their research. Often, well-disseminated research leads to higher citations. Here, we
Continue reading WHY is it crucial? Mostly in developing countries, universities cannot subscribe to the world’s leading journal publishers because it is expensive to subscribe to the journals of the leading publishers. However, there exists ways to get access to them without paying. For instance, many publishers provide free access to their articles to universities in developing countries upon request. In
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” Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access standalone journals. For journals published by a publisher, please look for the publisher on the list of publishers, here. This list is only for single, standalone journals. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for
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“ Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open‑access publishers This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards. In a few cases, non-open access publishers whose practices match those of predatory publishers
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What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is simply the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward. What is self-plagiarism? Self-plagiarism means reusing significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one’s own previous work
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