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1. What is research?
It is defining and redefining problems, formulating the hypothesis for suggested solutions,
collecting, organizing and evaluating data, making deductions and reaching conclusion
6. What is hypothesis?
Answer to the research questions before starting and doing the research.
12. What are the main body of a research report and thesis?
Reports and theses are broadly categorized in to three parts
(i) Preliminary pages include:
Title page, declaration by researcher, certificate by supervisor, abstract, table of
contents, list of figures, list of tables, symbols, acronyms, and their meanings.
(ii) Main body of the theses includes:
The body includes following elements: Introduction, Literature survey, Methods used and
proposed algorithms, Results, Discussion, Conclusions
(iii) Acknowledgments and reference material
It includes these elements: Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Appendixes
14. What are the most preferred Citation Index and Search Engines?
1. SCOPUS is possessed by Elsevier. SCOPUS is a bibliographic database of peer reviewed literature
containing scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
2. Science Citation Index (SCI) is a reference record initially delivered by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) and made by Eugene Garfield. It is presently owned by Clarivate Analytics.
16. What are the list of citation index and search engines?
○ Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
○ Science Citation Index (SCI)
○ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
○ Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
○ CiteSeer
○ IEEE Xplore
○ Scopus
○ Springer Link
○ Web of Science
○ PubMed
○ Google Scholar
○ Indian Citation Index
○ CNKI Scholar
○ Science Direct
17. What are the type of plagiarism?
A. Plagiarism of Words (The Ghost Writer)
B. Stitching Sources (Potluck Plagiarism)
C. Patchwork Plagiarism
D. Self-Plagiarism (the Self-Stealer)
E. Cyber and Digital Plagiarism
F. Accidental Plagiarism
G. Plagiarism of Authorship
H. Plagiarism of Ideas
I. Reuse of Programming Code
30. Choose 2 titles from your HomeWorks (as written bellow) and explain them.
(Just in maximum 5 lines explain each title)
A. Impact factor/Quality Factor
B. Google Scholar
C. Wikipedia
D. Open Access Journal
E. SCI/ ISI
F. WoS and Scopus
31. What are the parts of a research paper?
Title, Authors name and affiliation, Abstract and keywords, Table of contents, Introduction,
Methodology and proposed algorithm/ Experimental and Setup, Results and discussions,
Conclusion, References, Appendices