Archives for October 2021

ISI-indexed journals are journals with impact factor indexed in the Web of Science. Generally, Web of Science Core Collection includes only journals that demonstrate high levels of editorial rigor and best practice and accepted widely by academic institutions around the world. WOS journals are high quality journals and only publish papers that wen through a stringent appraisal with high impact. In the citation reports provided by the WOS platform, public can check the detailed indexing information of a particular journal.

Quartile is used to determine the rank of a journal in its field of knowledge. Q1 is occupied by the top 25% of journals in the list; Q2 is occupied by journals in the 25 to 50% group; Q3 is occupied by journals in the 50 to 75% group and Q4 is occupied by journals in the 75 to 100% group. The most prestigious journals within a subject area are those which occupy the first quartile, Q1 and with greater impact factor. Presently, WOS journals are ranked into quartile based on 2 main indicators, one is Journal Citation Index  (JCI) and another one is Journal Impact Factor (JIF). JCI is new indicator with separate quartile. In the journal citation report (JCR) of a journal, we can check for both JCI and JIF information for the journal, however for new journal that just been indexed in WOS, only JCI is stated in its JCR. For majority institutions, JIF still is the main indicator to justify the quality of a journal and the ranking is still based on JIF.

As the most important part in Chapter 1 of your thesis, do you know how to write a good problem statement? Here some tips to address your research problem statement professionally (Credit to Dr. Thava, ProofreadingByPhD). A problem statement should:

1. Introduce why we need to talk about the Problem, to help readers understand.
2. Breakdown all existing solutions chronologically, to allow readers to understand of the past.
3. Appropriate critical review for existing solutions, to allow readers to digest of the Problems within Older Solutions.
4. Introduce your solution by using the critical reviews as the platform, to allow readers RATIONALIZE YOUR THESIS!
5. Connect your solution to the RO, to allow readers to understand how you gona do it.

p/s: Length of Problem Statement around 1 to 2 pages.

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Literature review is one of the essential part in thesis writing. It is always related to the previous works done by the other researchers in a specific field closely relates with the thesis title. Here is some tips shared to write a good literature review (credit to Dr Thava, ProofreadingByPhD )

1. Introduction – Definition of the topic and provide an appropriate context for reviewing the literature; investigate the scope of the related literature; state the general findings of the review; and final sentence/s that signals list of key topics that will be used to discuss the selected sources.
2. Main body – Divide up your text into sections/topics; move from a general or wider view to the specific focus of your research; synthesis each paragraph of the many texts that you have chosen for your literature review; and explanation of how each work is similar to and how it varies from the others
3. Conclusion – Summarize the key findings of the review in general terms; identify significant flaws or gaps in existing knowledge; outline areas for future study; and link your research to existing knowledge.

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