Recruiting Research Participants
June 27, 2013
Not sure how relevant this is to UNMC, but it might be a resource that some of you could tap into? Recruiting research participants just got easier One of the big difficulties researchers face is recruiting participants for their research. That’s why three PhD students from The University of Nottingham have launched a new website …
Promote your research through a custom tag
June 26, 2013
Many of you are working on research projects that you might want to blog about, and then might want to link to all the blog posts about that research. This is easy to do with Word Press (the platform that this blog uses). For example, we can easily link to all the What is ….? …
What is Pharmaceutical Nanoemulsion?
June 25, 2013
In this What is? series, we invite experienced researchers to write about their area of research, but in more general terms than they might normally do. This article, entitled What is Pharmaceutical Nanoemulsion?, is written by Prof. Sivakumar Manickam If you would like to contribute, then please let me know (Graham.Kendall@nottingham.edu.my) and we can discuss …
Thomson Reuter Impact Factors: 2012
June 20, 2013
It is that time of the year that all journal editor-in-chiefs and publisher both love and fear. It is the time of the year when the new Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports are released. If the impact factor for your journal of choice has gone up, then all is right with the world and you …
Research paper ‘sloppiness’ on the increase, warns publisher
June 10, 2013
Thnaks to Ian Harrison for drawing this article to my attention. The Times Higher Education (THE) recently published an article that warns against research sloppiness. Worth a read, even if just to see what problems can be avoided. Header Image: Downloaded from THE (10th Jun 2013) as part of the aricle “Research paper ‘sloppiness’ …
GPS, camera traps and dung expose the secret life of endangered elephants
June 6, 2013
A very nice feature to the MEME project on the University web site (see here, and make sure that you take a look at the very interesting video).
UNMC Publications in 2013 (so far)
June 3, 2013
As we are getting towards the half way mark for 2013, I thought it would be interesting to see how we are doing with regard to publications. I have extracted the publications listed on Web of Knowledge and also Scopus. I have used these two bibliography indexes as they are the ones that are used …
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
May 29, 2013
For those of you that take an interest in research assessment (and who doesn’t with MyRA and REF), this document might be of interest. Thanks to Chung Lim for sending it to me. Header image: Download from Google (30 May 2013): Labelled as free to reuse. Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/6087889504/
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013
May 10, 2013
QS have just released their third year of subject rankings. You can access the information here. Of particular note (especilay to UNMC): Pharmacy & Pharmacology went from 23rd in 2012 to 15th in 2013. Geography went from 101-150 in 2012 to 50th in 2013. Education went from 51-100 in 2012 to 26th in 2013. …
Writing Teaching Case Studies
April 16, 2013
I am often involved in converastions about teaching and how to publish in the educational journals, with a view of adding to one’s CV, getting promoted, disseminating good teaching practise, carrying out research in this area etc. I recently came across an interesting web site that has a short series of articles on writing up …
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