Scientific Journal Rankings and Citations Know-How Suppose you are the topper in your class, now compare yourself with other toppers from different classes in the same school, now other schools in the same district, and then with the ones in …
It has been over two years since I defended my PhD at the University of Agder in Norway. During the last two years I have discussed the PhD process with many others including peers, junior PhD candidates and senior colleagues. …
It was only three months before submission of my PhD dissertation, I had my first PhD paper published. Sequentially, it was the third paper of the dissertation that was published first as the first two got stuck in journal review …
Dear New PhD Student This is an exciting time for you as you embark on your journey towards a doctoral degree. As your supervisor, I thought I should write to welcome you and give you a few handy hints that …
In the past twenty years, for almost every day of my life I’ve read academic writing. (No, I’m not trying to inspire pity). I read published papers, books, work in progress by colleagues, draft pieces by research students, submissions for …
Usually when citing published studies, we cite their main findings rather than random texts in introduction or literature review. Here, I present three ways of citing findings of Munim and Schramm (2018) while avoiding plagiarism. The higher the quality of …
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 …
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 …
Business, Economics and Management (general) Publication h5-index h5-median 1 Management Information Systems Quarterly 72 122 2 International Journal of Information Management 67 113 3 Information & Management 62 88 4 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 59 95 5 Business Horizons …
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 …