What is research? Introduction -- Beginning your research -- The basic idea -- Managing the research project … -- Choosing the research topic -- Defining your research perspectives -- Producing your project -- Doing your literature review …

The evaluation of scientific research is crucial for both the academic community and society as a whole. Numerous … bibliometric indices have been proposed for the ranking of research performance, mainly on an ad hoc basis. We now introduce the … novel class of Scientific Research Measures (SRMs) to rank scientists' research performance and provide a rigorous …