Chinese academic journals: quality, issues and solutions

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

Academic Journals on the Internet

While much research examines the internet's impact on 'electronic business' information technology may have an equally profound impact on what might be called 'electronic science'. Although the internet has the potential of revolutionizing research, it is not clear in which ways the structure of journals and the associated research processes will be affected. The purpose of this article is to p...

Quality of Service in Internet Web Services: Issues and Solutions

Several techniques have been developed to meet the demand for faster and more efficient access to the Internet. Among them a main role is acquired by the replication of the Web services. Replication can be addressed both by a cluster of servers and by servers geographically distributed in the Internet. In this paper we deal with geographical replication. Two approaches are possible for geograph...

LinkedCJ: A Knowledge Base of Chinese Academic Journals Based on Linked Data

Nowadays the amount of academic articles published in Chinese is growing rapidly, however, existing methods of managing and querying Chinese academic journals and articles are not semantic-based. Our work consists of creating an ontology for represents and organizing bibliographic information of Chinese academic journals and articles. Moreover, we develop software applications based on Nutch, j...

Blind Peer Review by Academic Journals