In conversation with Prof. P.K. Singh Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh is engaged for more than three decades in academics in the field of post-graduate teaching in management, training, research, consulting, and academic administration. He has a unique blend of experience having served in academics in all types of institutions – state university (Ujjain and Kanpur),…
The New Education Policy represents a major overhauling of pedagogical and systemic processes in Indian education, from the pre-primary level through to higher education. Among several proposed changes, such as emphasizing a multidisciplinary and multilingual approach, one provision stands out: the discontinuation of the MPhil program. In India, a Master of Philosophy, or MPhil, can…
The New Education Policy was launched on Wednesday, July 29. The Union Cabinet approved the policy that aims to overhaul the country’s education system.
The NEP 2020 aims at making “India a global knowledge superpower”. The policy also aims at “light but tight” regulation by a single regulator for higher education as well as o…
The new National Education Policy (NEP 2020), approved by the union, proposes a single regulator for higher education institutions across the country. Presently, regulation of higher education bodies is done through bodies like the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).
The Higher Education…
INTRODUCTION:
Google Scholar is a search engine that indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and formats. Google Scholar launched in 2004. It includes peer-reviewed academic journal articles, books and monographs, and conference paper theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other formats. It reportedly contains the full text or metadata of over a hundred…
The impact factor is used by many as a stand-in for the relative importance of a journal in its scholarly field. Higher the impact factor, the better the Journal. The Impact Factor is calculated from the Journal Citation Report or JCR published by Thomson Reuters, a for-profit company.
History:
It was derived by Eugene Garfield…
Orcid ID is a system to identify scientific and scholarly authors and contributors. It can help distinguish between people with the same name, or help identify people whose name may appear differently over time or from one project to another. It also helps to address cultural differences with how names are presented. This unique and…
Altmetric is a non-traditional method of assessing an article in an academic publication for its impact. Traditionally a journal is measured by items such as Impact Factor, Peer review and number of citations. Altmetrics is a non- traditional, article-level metrics that include Journal comments, Blog mentions, Wikipedia mentions, Tweets, Facebook posts or other events. Since…
PUBLONS
Introduction: Publons is a service used by academics that allows them to track, verify, and showcase their peer review for scholarly journals. Its mission is to speed up science by harnessing the power of “peer review”. It provides a verified record of an academic’s review and editorial activity for journals. Also, it provides tools…