Quality Control through Peer Review Process in Scholarly Communication: Review of Related Literature

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Accuracy of References in Journal Literature of Medical Sciences: A Review

“…The Nobel laureate geneticist and former president of Rockefeller University, Joshua Lederberg (1993) delivered a lecture on "Communication as the Root of Scientific Progress" 58 focussing on the relevance of scholarly literature and scholarly communication for the development of science. Quality related objectives in scholarly communications can be achieved with the help of thorough and extensive peer review process 59 (Gupta, 2017c). Referencing correctly according to a given citation style guide is a prime responsibility of authors, because "it protects them from charges of academic theft and plagiarism" 60 (Gupta & Babel, 2017, p. 399).…”

Flaws in Research Report Writing: An Evaluation of Research Reports Submitted for an International Conference on Education

“…A good Introduction is expected to fulfill the following purposes as specified by Biggam 2011(1) provide preliminary background information to place the present study in context (2) clarify the focus of the study (3) specify the overall research objective (4) specify what has been done, what has not been done and what still needs to be done. When the Introduction of a research report fails to describe the purpose and objective of the study and in addition, contains materials irrelevant to the study or belonging to other sections of the research report, then such an Introduction can be assessed to be deficient (Gupta, 2017).…”