Mendeley Reference Manager: Citing in Style
There many tools to help researchers organize and conduct experiments. Many of these involve citing other’s research and their results. To help find research done by others, we…
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How to Evaluate Research Impact: Bibliometrics
For academics, it is very important to be able to find and access high quality and updated information related to their work. Researchers are also increasingly interested in…
Master the Skills of Citing Business Sources in APA Style
Style guides provide guidelines for citations and references depending on the discipline. The American Psychological Association (APA) is one organization that provides the format…
Good Reference Management Tools for Manuscripts and Theses
All scientists know that to get published, they must have novel data. Therefore, when a researcher designs experiments and writes manuscripts, information and use of previous…
Open Citations: Who’s Citing Who in Peer Reviewed Journals?
Scholars and publishers of open access journals alike thrive on the constant publication and dissemination of research. At its core, journal articles represent the advancement of…
Factors That Influence How Often You Are Cited
As a researcher, you probably spend a lot of time with papers—either reading the work of others or preparing your own research for submission to a journal. By one estimate, about…
Tips for Citing Figures and Tables in a Manuscript
During the preparation of your research article or thesis, you may choose to include figures and tables to illustrate key points. Similar to using information from a journal or…
Key Steps to Proper Citation in a Manuscript
The process of scientific research is inextricably linked to the results of published work. Scientists frequently design their own experiments based on the findings of others.…
Reference Managers: Tools to Stay on Top of Your Literature
A good literature review is the building ground for carrying out an efficient and well-designed research project. One of the main qualities of research work is to bring out a new…
CiteScore: Accessible Analytics or Misleading Metrics?
In December 2016, Elsevier introduced a new metric for journals called CiteScore™ which is a part of Scopus—the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed…
Primer on Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing
There are plenty of methods for senior personalities to include their names in academic journals, even without participating in researches. There are also many ways to force…
What is the Value of Citation Metrics?
What are Citation Metrics?
The extent to which a research paper or academic text is cited in other pieces of academic work such as papers, thesis, dissertations, or other texts…