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  How to conduct a quality engineering research? (Image credits:  https://www.letsdoengineering.com/research ) Conducting quality engineering research involves following a structured approach to ensure that the research is well-planned, well-executed, and produces credible results. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to conduct quality engineering research: Identify the Research Problem: It is necessary to starting with clearly defining the research problem, ensuring it is specific, relevant, and has the potential to contribute to the existing body of knowledge in the field of engineering. Conduct a Literature Review: Before beginning your research, conduct a comprehensive literature review to understand the existing research and identify any knowledge gaps. This will help you to formulate research questions and hypotheses. Formulate Research Questions and Hypotheses: Based on the literature review, develop clear research questions or hypotheses that you aim to address in ...

Fake ISI Indexing Providers What is Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)? The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992, became known as Thomson ISI and now is part of the Healthcare & Science business of the multi-billion dollar Thomson Reuters Corporation. ISI offered bibliographic database services. Its specialty: citation indexing and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its longtime print-based indexing service the Science Citation Index (SCI), as well as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge database service. This database allows a researcher to identify which articles have been cited most frequently, and who has cited them. The ISI also publishes the...

Before submitting your research paper to so-called journals, please go through the guidelines given in this website. (Image source:  https://thinkchecksubmit.org/journals/  ) The journals which have been adopted the fake indexing providers also the fake journals. Check if the journal is available in this fake ISI indexing provider's list . Search and identify the journal is fake are not.

By keeping a old/fake UGC search results, any one can claim it is listed in UGC approved list.  For example click on the below journal page( ijcrt.org ), it shows it is listed in UGC approved list.  Here authors should search whether really it is listed in UGC approved list. For this authors should first visit UGC website( https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/apps1/home/index ) But the below ( fake ) image listed in their website shows that the journal is listed in UGC approved list. Please click the image below for the verification. In future the image link may be removed, but here we wish to provide awareness to the research community.  How to search or identify a journal is UGC approved in UGC website? First you must register with UGC website for searching a journal in the approved list. Also it is useful for identifying the fake journals.  Select either title of the journal or ISSN of the journal. After entering the title of the journal, the results shows as as follo...