Publish or Perish! A common phrase in academia. In simple words, to survive in academia, scholars need to publish. I started my PhD in 2015 and finished in 2018. Since then, I have been working as a faculty member, teaching, supervising and researching. In the six-seven years of academic career, I have been in the both sides of publish or
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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. In this post, I reflect on the PhD process relying on my own experience and some others’ I know, and
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At first, I apologise for painting a picture of a four-legged animal in the readers’ mind – I cannot find other options for a perfect analogy. Probably because I have seen too much road signs saying “Reindeer ahead” in Norway. Reindeers (Moose) can’t decide if to cross the road and run franticly – almost what I often do myself. Anyways,
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I have been asked many times how I ended up studying a Master’s in Microsystem and Nanotechnology in Norway. In truth, Norway was not the primary choice for studying abroad. But I was always captivated by Europe though. Therefore, countries like Germany, Austria, Sweden occupied the preferred spots on my list. It would seem very dramatic when I say one
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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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Professor Ilan Alon and Ziaul Haque Munim, conducted the EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Bibliometric Analysis as a blended course at the University of Agder in collaboration with EIASM. If you are interested in bibliometrics, see our video content at Bibliometrics Playlist. You can also see the list of bibliometric studies published by our network at https://jobs.researchhub.org/list-of-published-bibliometric-studies-by-research-hub-members/ We invite you to join
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Bibliometric studies published by Research HUB members and extended network Munim ZH, Duru O, Hirata E. Rise, Fall, and Recovery of Blockchains in the Maritime Technology Space. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2021; 9(3):266. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9030266 Mumu, J. R., Tahmid, T., & Azad, M. A. K. (2020). Job satisfaction and intention to quit: A bibliometric review of work-family conflict and research
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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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