NPTEL week 2
Week 2 : Literature survey , Experimental skills;
1. Which of the following is generally acceptable while publishing an article in a journal?
Replicating relevant figures from another article
Replicating own published text from another article
Replicating relevant equations from another article
Replicating relevant tables from own published articles
2. Which of the following is always true for an open access journal?
Such journals are not peer reviewed
Articles in such a journal are freely available for download
Such journals charge for publication of an article
Such journals are of dubious reputation
3. Which of the following is the most reliable source to identify original research in a particular topic?
Articles in archival peer reviewed journals
Reviews in encyclopedia
Compilations in handbooks
Abstracting services
4. Which of the following can be used to redirect the browser to the web page associated with the article?
International Standard Book Number
International Standard Serial Number
Universal Decimal Classification
Digital Object Identifier number
5. Which of the following indices convey the reputation of an author with regard to publication of articles?
h-index
h5-index
Journal impact factor
SJR ranking
6. Which of the following strategies of search fetches you the latest article based on a particular research topic?
Keyword search
Citation based search
Back reference based search
Affiliation based search
7. Which of the following is NOT an free / open source for scholarly articles?
arxiv.org
researchgate.net
sciencedirect.com
semanticscholar.org
8. What kind of tools are the following: Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote and RefWorks ?
Word processing tools for scientific articles
Search engines for scholarly articles
File management tools
Citation management tools
9. Which of the following is NOT a recommended practice to identify publications that need to be listed under references of an article?
Relevant publications actually referred to
Latest publications by the editor of the journal
Original publications in the topic of the article
Own publications referred in the article for further details
10. Which of the following is NOT a necessary feature to be considered while listing the bibliogaphic details of a reference?
Bibliographic details are in the format prescribed by the journal
The reference is cited in the article
Referred article is freely available on the internet
Bibliographic details have redundacy to help locate the reference