<p>Despite the crucial importance of high quality reviewing for the scientific process, new scholars often learn how to do this based on casual advice and trial-and-error learning. We offer a checklist that helps referees systematically develop high quality referee reports and avoid some of the...</p>

Using Faff's (2015, 2019) pitching research template as a base (first-phase scholarly pitch), Faff and Kastelle (2016) develop a research pitch tool targeting non-academic external stakeholders/end users. The “pitching research for engagement and impact” (PR4EI) second-phase pitch augments...

Humans strive for quot;profitquot; in the various aspect of life, the profit may be monetary or it could be pleasure, security, or some other quot;currencyquot;. This paper develops a fundamental profit-loss equation based on existing theory with the profit or loss to the seller, expressed per...

Faff's (2015, 2019) pitching research concept provides a simple 2-page template tool, with the aim of presenting a framework SO THAT a novice researcher can confidently and succinctly convey all the essential elements of a new research proposal to an academic expert. The “low technology” way...

To encourage wider adoption and dissemination of Faff's (2015, 2019) Pitching Research framework, herein, I set out a carefully organized resource kit for instructors charged with the goal of research capacity building and/or research training. Targeted instructors include: “research...

In this paper I provide details on an extensive resource center to support Faff's (2015, 2018a) pitching template framework – a framework that provides a succinct and methodical approach to pitching a new research proposal to an academic expert. Specifically, I give a comprehensive update and...

In this paper we have used probability economics as a tool of unification of the market process concept of Austrian economics and the supply and demand laws and equilibrium state concepts of neoclassical economics. The new agent-based trade maximization principle has been proposed to serve as a...

India has the world's second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in health related indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest...

TWENTY16 has been a BIG year! As a companion to Faff (2015, 2016), the current paper reviews experiences and draws insights from a series of workshops, pitch days, competitions, webinars and other events based on the “pitching research” template tool. With close to 80 unique events conducted...

Discoverability or visibility is a challenge that faces all researchers worldwide – with an ever increasing supply of good research entering the scholarly marketplace; this challenge is only becoming intensified as time passes. The global language of scholarly research is English and so the...