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 may help both of us to survive this long journey. We both have much to learn. Although we have exchanged
Continue reading According to Tom Narins, a book review serves two academic purposes. The first is that, as scholars, we should each aim to be current/fluent in the major new developments in our field. Writing a book review enables you as a scholar to become fluent in the new developments and trends in your field – because the author of the book
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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 conferences, grant proposals — the whole range. In that staggering amount of claims, disputes, literature reviews, findings, abstracts, methodology sections
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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 port infrastructure of a country, the better is the logistics performance of that country (Munim and Schramm, 2018). Munim and
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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
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