What is researchHUB? ResearchHUB, a platform for scholars worldwide, is founded in September 2015 by Dr. Ziaul Haque Munim, currently Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. RHUB is dedicated to publish videos on different research methods showing a step-by-step guideline, and providing tips and strategies to publish in high quality academic journals. Our audience ranges from Bachelors students
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Since the beginning of my academic career, I have been struggling with my academic writing. Since 2014, I have read at least 10 books and many articles only on academic writing. During my PhD years, I took a course in academic English writing. Still, for most of my research articles, I use a professional native English speaker proof-reader before submitting
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A few days ago someone asked me, “How reliable is Google Scholar (GS)? How can a scholar have 1000s of citations on GS but only a few hundreds citations on Web of Science?” This is a very valid question and here is what I think about it; Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. In
Continue reading 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 Checklist for Structural Equation Modelling Here I present a checklist for robust structural equation modeling (SEM) in research articles. 1. Data cleaning 2. Check normality of data 3. Check for response bias 4. Develop a measurement model 4.1. Exploratory factor analysis 4.2. Confirmatory factor analysis 4.3. Correlations among latent factors 4.4. Convergent and divergent validity checks 4.5. Reliability checks 4.6.
Continue reading How to finish your PhD on time? 3 critical lessons every PhD learns the hard way By Stine Øyna During my very first week as a PhD student my new colleagues and I attended the defense (i.e. Viva or equivalent) of a Chinese guy who had spent 10 (T-E-N) years on his dissertation. I didn’t quite get his topic
Continue reading 10 terrible thoughts you will have during your PhD .. and why you will be fine anyway By Stine Øyna Last week our department welcomed a total of 19 new PhD students into our program in International Business. As a third-year candidate I was asked to give a talk about PhD life, and ideally offer some advice on how to
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I do not consider myself as an exceptional public speaker or orator, but as an educator I do make a serious effort to prepare for my public talk, so that I can manage to impart as much knowledge as possible to my audience, and that they would enjoy the talk I plan to deliver. My main objective as a public
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I wrote this because I feel that most people could benefit from acquiring the art of dealing with their bosses. Most of us have a boss or bosses at work, unless of course if you are your own boss. I am my own boss now, but for a good 35 years I was bossed around. Working under a boss can
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ByProf. Dr.Jamal Hisham Hashim Visiting Professor at United Nations University- IIGH Former Professor of Environmental Health at National University Malaysia Making good plans and preparation for a PhD journey is just as important as starting one. Starting a PhD journey on the wrong foot can spell disaster. So, I am penning my advice and tips here for PhD aspirants
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