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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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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A few months ago I attended a conference where a student (from a Non-English speaking country) told me his personal experience. He told me about the harsh comments his supervisor made on the initial draft of his paper at the end of his first month as a doctorate study. This is not the first time I heard of a student
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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
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It almost never came across my mind to pursue my PhD study in Norway. As an academician in the field of accounting/management, my “only knowledge” of pursuing a doctoral study is to countries such as the US, the UK, or Australia. Not only its beautiful nature and scenery, but Norway also offers high-quality education and a unique student experience that
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Below we present the ranking of top 20 transportation journals based on 2019 Google Scholar Metrics. Rank Publication h5-index h5-median 1 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 79 117 2 Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 75 102 3 Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 60 79 4 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 59 78 5 Accident Analysis &
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EPIC or ECFMG verification is the first step to get license and practice medicine abroad. Countries like UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Scandinavia and other European countries requires credentials to be verified by ECFMG. Through some recent changes, this verification has turned into a complete online process including a slight raise of fees. This procedure might seem a little complicated to
Continue reading 40 Potential Question that a Master’s and Ph.D. Researcher faces at the time of Thesis Defense: Can you start by summarising your thesis? Now, can you summarise it in one sentence? What is the idea that binds your thesis together? What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research? What are the main issues and debates in this subject
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