Full Professor of Shipping and Logistics
I am happy to share that I have been promoted to Full Professor of Shipping and Logistics at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). This achievement would not have been possible without the support...
Category: Reflection
Some reflection on academic publishing
Publishing a paper is easy nowadays; there are so many journals and publishers, and anyone can publish almost anything. The question is- do we want to publish just anything? Do we want to publish...
Ethical and legal behavior
Here are some examples for each quadrant in the “Legal-Ethical” matrix: 1. Legal and Ethical Actions that comply with the law and align with ethical standards: 2. Legal and Unethical Actions that comply with...
What is your cyrpto selling strategy?
As of November 22, the crypto market cap is $ 3.37 Trillion. If you have bought your crypto at the right price, many of crypto invenments are trying green with 2x to 5x overnight. Still...
2023 Norwegian Scientists in the world’s 2% list
The updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators was published recently, which provides two rankings. One, ranking based on all publication years, and second, ranking based on a particular year, whcih is 2023...
First Opponent on the PhD evaluation committee on Arctic shipping at Nord University
Congratulations Dr. Alina Kovalenko on the successful defense of your doctoral thesis titled “Economic Feasibility of Commercial Transit Shipping via the Northeast Passage” at Nord University Business School today. It was a great pleasure...
10 Practical Tips for Academic Writing
Complimentary free tips: Always keep your paragraph justified (CTRL+J) and insert page number at the bottom. Use a professional proof-reader or at least Grammarly before submission to a journal.
My name appears in the list of world’s top 2% scientists
The lastest list of world’s top 2% scientists was published on October 4, 2023, which published top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in...
Can generative AI generate completely new knowledge?
“AI is going to take over the world”. Probably, you have heard it too many times. Recently, with the development of generative AI, this thought have flourished even more among general public. But I...
In-text citation guidelines in academic writing
In all forms of academic writing such as essay writing, bachelor/master thesis, PhD dissertation, conference papers, journal articles etc., it is mandatory to follow proper referencing or citation principles. Negligence in appropriate citation can...
