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Perdi mi revisión de examen en vez de subir bajo a cero en álgebra y trigonometría a la espera del resultado de conjuntos sucesiones y límites pero que les moleDra tanto ya que esas materias las aprobé en física y nunca me revalidaron ni estadistica que mala experiencia universidad veracruzana

Dear Researchers,

I submitted my research article to a journal (Taylor and Francis) approximately 1 year and 6 months ago. I have also submitted the revision, with the last update being in May 2024. Despite several follow-up emails to the journal editor’s office, I have only received apologies, with no decision regarding my submission.

Could you please advise me on the next steps I should take in this situation?

Thank you for your guidance.

I am looking for some studies that look into what is the 'best' revision technique, ideally at secondary education level or above :)

I am busy revising a previously validated FFQ. Since it was a dish_based one, its dishes' recipes need to be updated. I wonder if there is a quick method for revision of recipe's content. Otherwise, we have to calculate all recipes denovo which is very time consuming.

I am planning to do audit on knowledge of doctors on modified early warning score at Base Hospital Nikawaratiya Sri Lanka. It is great help that if you could give questionnaire to conduct this audit. I'll generate self generate questionnaire base on the questionnaire that already used. thank you

The bug when published paper did not appear in Google Scholar after posting preprints at BioRxiv and ArXiv has been described in 2014: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/95152/do-all-preprint-servers-have-the-non-updating-issue-in-google-scholar.

The bug occurs when preprint has been in the same state for a while. Did anyone figured out any way to avoid this bug?

Did anyone experience similar issue after posting preprints ResearchSquare? The preprint status there shows how manuscript is going through the revision process. May be it will help to avoid this Google Scholar bug?

HI there, I've came across several articles discuss about random audit an Non random to tax evasion or compliance. Most of the articles is relating about effect of audit (random or non random) conducted by tax department in Norway.

1) what is random audit.

2) What is the method of random audit

3) Does taxpayers notified that they has been audited via random selection? Since the article found most of random audit leads to tax evasion by taxpayers. I expect the taxpayers know that they has been selected randomly and wont be selected again in a near corner so that they tend to underreport income and overstate of relief and deductions for anticipating audit wont come again.

Hope anyone here could make it clear for me. TQ in advance

I have submitted a second revision to the reputed journal. But it has been showing "awaiting admin processing" for 2 weeks. What is the meaning of this?

Are they the audit phases?

Are they the ways that each auditor deals with specific subject?

Published Journal reviews on Handhygiene audits.

i submitted my paper on 28th dec 2023, after 3times revision, i submitted it on 1april 2024, still is under review, what could be the outcome?

Greetings community. Are there any experts in this topic you can recommend to build a solid theoretical revision for a reflection around the topic? Thanks for your help.

What is the difference between a systematic review and a review article?

In order to submit a paper some authors choose journals which offer one side blinded revision, so that the identity of the referee/s remains/remain unknown for the author. Nevertheless other authors prefer journals with two side blinded revision.

I personally prefer the last option, more impartial in my opinion. I wonder what is your opinion. What do you think about this? Thank you very much in advance.

I am doing research, and one of my research variables is audit risk assessment. I want to do applied studies instead of questionnaires.

I am writing on small community churches that become disconnected from the community and creating strategies to reestablish that relationship through evangelism and outreach ministry with relevant ministry to the community.

Solutions involve

Cultural Audit involving the church and community in terms of:

Context

Mindset

Hospitality

Assuming, of course, that the journal in question has a preprint policy.

I submitted a manuscript to a journal recently, and although their standard procedure involves two reviewers, I received feedback from three. While two of the reviewers provided positive feedback and suggested minimal or no changes, the third was notably critical. While I acknowledge and agree with some comments that could enhance the manuscript (though they don't represent significant shortcomings), certain remarks were either irrelevant or challenging to comprehend—potentially due to the reviewer's non-native English proficiency. Additionally, certain points he raised were already been addressed in the manuscript. That reviewer consistently labeled every section of the manuscript as “poor”, including the results section, which was carefully written following APA style guidelines, with a balance between statistics and descriptions to ensure readers neither felt overwhelmed by statistics nor missed key information. He recommended the rewriting of the manuscript and as a result, the editor has requested a revision. Is it common for reviewers to lack expertise in certain areas, leading to concerns that may not be considered constructive criticism? How much weight editors give to such comments in revision?

After two rounds of revision, the status of my manuscript has changing from "Awaiting Reviewer Invitation" to "Awaiting Reviewer Assignment" within a span of three months. This change has occurred multiple times. Does anyone have any insights into why this is happening?

now the status of revised manuscript changed to 'revision". I am so confused why I got 'revision' after I submitted a revised version. Thanks for your information

Research question? Audits of long-term effects of failure of childhood attachment.

Retrospective study at a Child Family Unit.

Report on Effectiveness of Audit Committees in Ghana.

I have submitted my manuscript to the Hindawi journal five months ago. I have revised the manuscript two times: the first major revision and the second minor revision. After submitting the minor revision, the status changed to under review and pending approval. After waiting 20 days for pending approval, the status now is reviewers invited. What will be the reason, and what will be the result? Please help me.

I just deleted an old file and I now see no place on the website to upload my new revision.

Research on: employee awareness and understanding of internal quality audits in the university?

Tress et al. (2014) present a step-by-step present a step-by-step guide on how to write a paper for a successful publication in a peer-reviewed journal. They propose a ten-step approach to the entire process of paper writing from preparation, manuscript writing, and submission to the stages of peer-review and revision. The steps include defining paper objectives, authorship, journal selection, writing routines, requirements of manuscript sections, editing and proof-reading as well as how to communicate successfully in submission and review. Authors with a ten-step guide on how to write a paper that gets published in a peer-reviewed journal. Step 1. Define the objective, type and title of the paper. Step 2. Decide on co-authors. Step 3. Define the audience and select the correct journal. Step 4. Write for readers. Step 5. Write in short, but regular sessions. Step 6. Write a well-focused and clearly structured manuscript. Step 7. Edit the text for clarity,-logic, language and length. Step 8. Ask colleagues to read the manuscript critically. Step 9. Communicate clearly in submission, review and revision. Step 10. If a manuscript is rejected, do not give up.

Source:

Tress, G., Tress, B. and Saunders, D. (2014). News and Views How to write a paper for successful publication in an international peer-reviewed journal INTRODUCTION. Pacific Conservation Biology, 20, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC140017

Research project

I am searching for a website that has all CS journals (specially machine learning and artificial intelligence ones) and writes the TTP (Time To Publish) for each paper.

TTP = E[1st review + revision + 2nd review + revision + ... + final review + accept + internet publish]

With a view to a work on the mechanisms to combat corruption.

I submitted my manuscript to one of the famous X journal last year. I got my third major revision mail today. I am kind of concerned about a rejection after 2 years of submission-revision process.

I am kindly asking about recommendations and opinions about it.

how can i measure the audit quality?

Me interesa la revisión del concepto MODELO Y DISEÑO , basado en SALUD PÚBLICA, PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD, DETERMINANTES SOCIALES DE LA SALUD, FUNCIONES ESENCIALES, posterior a la PANDEMIA.

My manuscript, which I sumbit to a journal of Sage in September 2022, passed the Editor stage and was taken for peer review. After 11 months, the referee evaluation was finalised. They rejected it without revision today. The editor said that "Although the reports are generally positive, we are unable to accept your submission for publication. This is due to the sheer volume of submissions we have received over the past few years. As a result, the acceptance rate had to be strongly reduced." There are contradictory statements that I cannot make sense of. How can an article with a "positive report" be rejected without revision after 11 months with the excuse of the acceptance rate of the journal? If they are sensitive to the acceptance rate, why do they take it to peer review and how do they see themselves the right to keep it waiting for 11 months? Isn't it unfair to keep them waiting for 11 months to give a direct rejection?

Despite the positive reports, they only showed me the review text of one referee. Unfortunately, the review of the referee full of contradictions is very superficial and there is not even a concrete argument and criticism. I cannot see the other reviews at all. After 11 months, I am very upset to be rejected with an acceptance rate excuse and an inconsistent referee review. What can I do against this situation? How can I claim my rights? How can I complain about the editor's unfair attitude and approach. I need your help very much. Thank you!

Hope you are doing well.

I want to share my experience with PLOS ONE.

Recently we have submitted some papers in PLOS ONE and after two or three rounds of revision they accepted it officially and send an acceptance Email to all authors.

Then after checking 5-6 months, they have rejected our paper "with no reason".

I summary, for our 5-6 accepted papers, they have just wasted our 1 years and do not forget that they have high charges for the publication.

In addition, we have submitted some new papers in the PLOS ONE and the paper is still "Submitted to the Journal" from the last four months.

Remember that they are also charging very high publication fees.

I just convey to all my colleagues and seniors that think twice and thrice, when you will plan to submit a paper in PLOS ONE.

Compare to this, MDPI can publish a paper just within 3 weeks, and PLOS ONE is taking three months just for changing the status of the paper.

Best wishes,

Regards

Muhammad Hamzah Saleem

Research Assistant

Qatar University

In their joint fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion international governance developed different tools. One of these tools is the joint audit. The term “joint audit is used to express that two or more countries join together to form a single audit team to examine an issue(s)/transaction(s) of one or more related taxable persons with cross-border business activities.

Taking into account that countries like Australia, the UK, Canada and the US are effectively engaging in joint tax audits, I would like to look into statistical evidence obtained in these countries (e.g. the time length, outcome achieved, resources employed between an internal audit and a joint audit).

the effectiveness of tax audit in revenue organization

what is the difference between major revision and revision with justification of criticisms in CBM journal?

I sent an email to the Editor-in-Chief (EIC), Associate Editor (AE), and journal administrator inquiring about the possibility of extending the revision deadline, four days before the deadline. However, I did not receive any responses. In this situation, may I submit the original manuscript to the journal again?

"Awaiting Referee Scores" means ?

what can I use to measure audit risk and audit quality in analyzing data gotten from financial statements? I have gotten the financial statements of deposit money banks, but I do not know how to measure the audit risk and audit quality. my research topic is audit risk and audit quality in deposit money banks

I'm looking for a database with data on several corporate governance structures such as;

Board Size, Board Independency, CEO Duality, Board Gender Diversity, etc.

Is there a database around that holds this kind of data for e.g. NASDAQ or NYSE companies?

Furthermore, I am looking for a database that contains data with information from annual reports such as Audit Commitee Size or Number of Board Meetings.

Instead of collecting this data by hand out of firms' annual reports, it's more efficient if there is a database available that contains this kind of data. Is there any?

I am reading about Refinitiv, BoardEX or Bloomberg. Somebody who can help me out?

Thanks in advance.

the relation between external audit and company's financial performance!

by both the internal auditor and the external auditor

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing ok

I'm currently looking for researchers in the field of accounting and audit to partner up with to publish articles in high impact journals.

Thanks in advance

I am looking forward to publish my work in the Science or Nature. I have submitted a paper before to the Science but it was rejected with decision as transfer option. However, on submitting the same paper to an SCI journal, it got accepted without any revision.

I want to know that what journals like these expect in a paper. What essentially is the criteria. I have seen many papers related to my field published in the Science and Nature and they are just like the papers published in journals of Springer or Elsevier. I personally feel, the work published in journals of Springer or Elsevier are more exhaustive and enriched with a lot of experiments.

Kindly guide me on the same.

research should explore how professional ethics are affecting the audit independence

Currently I'm struggling with choosing between various analysis options, ranging from repeated measures design, to 4-way ANOVA to ANCOVA or to moderation analysis with the PROCESS macro of Hayes.

Some background information: My main research question is: To what extent can subgroup membership predict changes in X scores six months after participation in an intervention, and is this effect moderated by Y(controlled for Z.

I am not sure if I should work with a repeated measures design, or work with a change score of AUDIT (by calculating T1-T0). What I have read about this is that the difference scores ANOVA (1) tests whether the change or difference from T0 to T1 is equal acorss all groups, whereas ANCOVA (2) tests whether the T1 scores are equal across groups while controlling for their scores on T0. I've read that this is a small however potentially impactful distinction which got famous through Lord's paradox (https://m-clark.github.io/docs/lord/index.html / ANCOVA Versus CHANGE From Baseline in Nonrandomized Studies: The Difference: Multivariate Behavioral Research: Vol 48, No 6 (tandfonline.com)). It's been stated that if your groups are randomly assigned experimental groups, both methods are equivalent and you can choose whichever you prefer. If they are naturally occuring groups the literature indeed suggests using the difference scores method.

Since the subgroups I'm working with are latent classes that indeed 'naturally' occur, I am wondering if I should indeed go with change scores (despite its downfalls that has been written about in the literature, e.g. addition of measurement errors etc).

What is important to keep in mind is that my data (in both options, so taking AUDIT change or AUDIT_T1 as DV) has been violating assumptions of normality ánd homogeneity throughout, and I am not sure how to best deal with that in my current situation. The macro's of Hayes moderation PROCESS tool seemed like a good solution, but it depends on question 1 whether I can use that (because i need to use de AUDIT change score for that).

All in all, I am unsure how to proceed. Thank you in advance for thinking along.

Greeting Respected RG Scientist and Researcher

I submitted a minor revision for my paper based on the comments by the editor and Reviewers 1 and 2. in Hindawi publisher. It has been over two months, but the status is still displayed as ‘Pending Approval.’ How much more time should I wait for a response?

In my opinion, the value of the audit is broader and more comprehensive, and the quality of the audit is one of the indicators that are used to achieve the value of the audit

In the nature of the matter, the value of the audit is more important than the quality of the audit, and the quality of the audit is one of the basic indicators of the value and importance of the audit.

In another consideration, audit quality and audit value are two separate terms, but at the same time they are interrelated together, as audit quality is part of the audit value. Therefore, the higher the audit quality percentage, the higher the audit value percentage, and vice versa. The audit quality percentage also decreases, so the audit value decreases. One of the main reasons for the high or low value of auditing is the quality of auditing

Dear all,

As part of my current research, I would like to have your valuable opinion on the Factors affecting objectivity and effectiveness of Information Security/IT Audit.

Papers and references are welcomed.

Thank you.

What

I Submitted the revision of my manuscript and the academic editor made his recommendation in hindawi for more than month until now in quality check Pending approval

Modern quality control of audit services is very strict. Copies of the company's documents that confirm the results of the activity are not enough. Should the auditor have his evidence for all items of the balance sheet and how many working documents should be developed?

I am studying the replication of a management process in the PSFs This process is relatively similar across these companies. So, is it a single case of replicating the process in the big four? or is it a multiple case study?

Note: I am not looking for variances between cases as there aren't any, I am looking into how the process is replicated in these firms and i am considering them as a one unit.

Dear Author, We received one revision and trying to find second reviewer. To this day we send request for 9 experts in this field (Including authors suggestions). They declined or ignored our invitations. We must search until someone agreed to take on this assignment. If you want to suggest someone else, you have to do it according to the following guidelines: Authors can suggest reviewers but they cannot be from the same institution as the authors, and at least one cannot be from the same country. With best regards,

What is the average time duration between revision submision and final decision for the Journal of biomolecular structure and dynamics?

After submission of revision before 18 days ago the final decision has not come yet. What is the chance of acceptance?

Generally speaking, a revision request means that the editor/reviewers see a merit in publishing your article, but some major/minor changes are required. A reject after revision is uncommon but it happens, what were the main reasons from the author’s side as well as the editor/ reviewers side of the story? Hopefully the answers will help others avoid these pitfalls in their responses to the reviewers!

So, I'm using secondary data to evaluate the following hypotheses:

H1: AUDIT score increase, then BIS scores increase and BAS decreases [This is tested for age groups 18- 40 and 40yrs and above] and for [Males and Females]

H2: Is there a relationship between TriPM scores and AUDIT scores?[This is tested for age groups 18- 40 and 40yrs and above] and for [Males and Females]

H3: Correlation between (BIS and BAS scores) and  AUDIT scores?[This is tested for age groups 18- 40 and 40yrs and above] and for [Males and Females]

I would appreciate if anyone could advise which methods are appropriate?

I was think regression or MANOVA but unsure as the demographics I need to need to be dichotomised. Any help is appreciated! I only have the descriptives I have done attached here.

All variables are from self-report questionnaires.

Thanks!

when the editor requests a major revision in a scientific article. does he take the decision of direct acceptance after review without going back to the reviewers?

Well,

I mean by laws and reglementations which are related to the work of external auditor.

I need some articles which describes or explains the impact between the two concepts.

Thx

Is it OK to send email to journal for extension request for a revision?

Many U.S universities offer short-term opportunities doctoral degree holders to pursue further research. They may also allow visiting fellows to audit graduate-level courses and to have access to academic facilities for personal research. To explore these opportunities, how should we contact university faculty or academic departments directly for exchange programs or access laboratory facilities in offline mode. I know someone will be travelling to the USA on their own and would like to access the laboratory to get some certifications or knowledge for the 10 days or 15 days time duration. Is it possible to identify which universities and programs can support a researcher so that he can earn a few credit points and also learn during the time period.

If you know kindly suggest as travel expenses may be covered by the researcher during the visit.

Dear professors and researchers, I am looking for a suitable title for my thesis. I searched a lot but couldn't find a new topic. I am researching in the field of internal audit and external audit. Thanks for your cooperation

Hello,

I had a major revision paper in Q2 journal and it was holding with the editor. Please, how can I resolve this issue?

I tried to send to them several emails without any reply. Please, how can I resolve the issue raise by them?

I wonder if I should wait for acknowledgement from the journal and comment from the reviewer or editor or just resend my revision?

how can the analytical procedure of audit support the application of corporate goverance

Hello I have a manuscript revision with one of the reviewers is concerning about the power of study

Its a case control study with case group having 34 and control group having 71 patients

The primary outcome variable is a continuous variable with a mean 41 and standard deviation of 26 , and not -normally distributed, and our cohort is the largest cohort ever will be published

But there is no prior report on this issue, so how can i do a power analysis

Thanks for helping

Can somebody advise me on the long delaying processing of manuscripts submitted to Springer journals? It took nearly 1 year after the first revision and I am not getting any updates now. Is it worth to withdraw the paper?

Pls advise.

Hello everyone,

I've been looking for recent regulations and matters that are linked to auditing to discuss for my research thesis. I could really use any suggestion regarding auditing, audit market, audit trends...

Thank you.

Best.

Hi,

I would like to include a control variable whether a company is audited by the big four or not? However, in which database the information would be available in yes or no format. I checked Eikon but didn't get the data. Would be glad if you kindly guide me in this regard. Thank you.

i. Although the suggested correction was very less raised by the 2 reviewers in their 2nd revision, why does the editor asked for major revision?

ii. Why does the editor has given me clues to solve each of the raised questions? Does it mean the learned editor is going to accepting my paper after updating the manuscript based on given suggestions by the reviewers?

One of the main differences between Financial Audit and Forensic Audit is that the Financial Audit gives the guarantee that the financial statements that have been checked are true and fair and are reasonable whereas, Forensic Audit helps to analyze and investigate a certain set of transaction, if any fraud has been occurred.

The goal of this project is to set the record straight as much focus have been on the Financial Audit as the Fraud Detector.

The questions are: 1. Who then is the Fraud Detector, a Financial Auditor or a Forensic Auditor?

2. Why are Financial Auditors liable if failed in their audit duty to detect fraud within an organization?

I would like to focus my master thesis on digitalization and audit and I am struggling to find a good research gap. My research topic will be digitalization and its effect on audit innovation. Moreover, the whole topic is still rather vague and I am searching for an interesting currently under-researched field.

Any suggestions? Would much appreciate it!

Dear Scholars,

We had submitted a manuscript on 25 Apr 2020 (please see the attachment 1) titled “Assessing the impact of Pakistani females' religious beliefs on sports by using Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire” to the Journal of Religion & Health for possible publication. Within time spend of 2 years we got not less than 7 revisions (please see the attachment 1) on different time and almost different comments every time. After almost 2nd revision we used MDPI service and spent 1600 CHF (please see attachment 5) for language correction. The latest comments sent by the editor were some statistical changings and recommendation of grammatical review (please see attachments 2 and 3). We used their recommended service and spent almost US$345 (please see attachment 4).

We submitted our last revision on Jan-2022 and waiting for the possibly acceptance email for 3 months (because last revision was just about the language and some minor changings in statistical analysis). And today we just got the rejection (please see the attachment 1) email from the Editor-in-Chief Journal of Religion and Health.

Though the outcome of the process is very disappointing because we used a lot of time, energy and money on the demand of journal, I would like to know from you scholars if there is any academic way to response such kind of journals? It’s not about only our paper, but this effort can also save the time and energy (may be money) of other scholars like you.

I really appreciate your understanding and suggestions.

Regards

Rizwan

Professor (Associate)

Hubei Normal University, China.