Evaluating otherwise: hierarchies and opportunities in publishing practices

Undergraduate Publishing Opportunities

As science education incorporates more inquiry-based activities throughout the curriculum, students gain important opportunities to take active roles in scientific research via independent research courses and summer research, as well as within traditional lab courses. While some industrious student researchers will experience the process of publishing their research in a scientific journal, th...

Better Practices in Scientific Publishing.

Everyone strives to do or be the best, but the state of better, meaning to improve that which has been done before, may be all that can be reasonably expected or hoped for. Publishing is extremely important to the science profession because in the scientific world, the assessment of the value of an individual s achievements depends on reputation, and wide recognition of the worth of scientific ...

Evaluating and Optimizing Factorization in Inheritance Hierarchies

Inheritance hierarchies often constitute the backbone of object-oriented systems. Their quality is therefore quite crucial. We present here our work the objective of which is to help designers to improve and to measure the quality of their inheritance hierarchies. The quality we deal with is the degree of factorization of information. Our work is based on the mathematical structure of Galois (c...

Concepts, Principles and Practices for Planning, Developing and Evaluating New Market Opportunities

Guidelines for selecting journals that avoid fraudulent practices in scholarly publishing

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...