What is a Monograph?
A monograph is a scholarly work, written by a single individual usually on a single topic. The English term "monograph" is derived from modern Latin "monographia", which has its root in Greek in the English word, "mono-" means "single" and "-graph" means "something written"
Characteristics of the Monograph:
The monograph is written by a single…
The China Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship (CSPF), offered jointly by Ashoka University (India) and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (US), is an opportunity for recent PhDs in China Studies to conduct a two-year study on China under the guidance of established scholars and simultaneously teach courses on China at top Indian universities.
The fully-funded fellowship is open to scholars who have…
Ashoka University has announced the second year of the China-India Visiting Scholars (CIVS) Fellowship!
CIVS is an opportunity for academics, policy experts, and professionals who are interested in expanding their current research to include lessons from China.
The theme for their second year is ‘Economics and Development,’ including but not limited to areas spanning public…
"Predatory journal in research' is a fake-full text freely available online journal that takes the publication charges without providing the editorial and publication services. Therefore, they keep the publication fee generally low, so as to attract readers.
Basic terminology related to the "Predatory journal in research":
“Predatory publishing can be described as a low quality, amateurish,…
SCI & SSCI are the commercial citation indexing products of Clarivate Analytics. The Clarivate Analytics was known as “ Thomson Reuters ” formally. But, later it was maintained by Clarivate Analytics to provide a comprehensive citation search of all the indexing lists. It also provides s ubscription-based services which mainly focus on analytics, including…
Scopus is the leading abstract and indexing research discovery solution for academia, business and government.
From researchers pursuing scientific breakthroughs to academic institutions and government agencies evaluating research, and ranking organizations conducting assessments, Scopus is the abstract and indexing database of choice.
Worldwide, Scopus is used by more than 5,000 academic, government and corporate institutions, and…
A term paper is a research paper submitted by a student for a course when a course term ends. It’s done during the coursework which helps students to learn that how to write papers. The students also learn the writing and reading process. It is written in an individual capacity as a course submission. The…
Peer-review is the process of subjecting an author’s scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Generally, Peer-review serves two primary purposes:
It ensures the publication of high-quality research.
Peer-review improves the quality of manuscripts that are suitable for publication.
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The Three-papers PhD Thesis is a monograph, which describes the work done by the Ph.D. candidate during the academic year. It describes the problem that the candidate has worked on, possibly within a larger team, that too, under the guidance of his/her academic advisors/professors. It defines the problem and reviews all the existing approaches to…