Successful doctoral researchers must adopt dispassionate receptivity to critical feedback. The true doctoral scholar’s passion for their studies remains undiminished by negative feedback because they remain objectively remote; their personal feelings, self-confidence an...

Dire, globally high doctoral attrition rates are the result of competing impediments to the success of a doctoral aspirant who is unprepared to consistently produce scholarly doctoral-level writing, lacking the in the theoretical, philosophical, and intellectual trainin...

The importance of choosing a clear, focused, interesting, specific, original, feasible, justified, and ethical doctoral dissertation topic cannot be overstated. According to a scholarly journal article by Baird (1997), the journey from beginning a doctoral program and s...

This article presents a detailed examination of the benefits, challenges, and purpose of conducting a doctoral-level literature review. The article analyzes both the cognitive neurolinguistic processing challenges attending the assimilation and synthesis of large volume...

The perception and role of researchers in the academic community including the mental and behavioral changes necessary to become a successful researcher.

The successful development of an independent doctoral identity is a transformational journey from student to scholar requiring frequent peer and faculty feedback-based interaction and immersive, constant doctoral-level research and writing. An independent doctoral ident...

The field of Middle Eastern history began as an attempt to understand how Europeans came to dominate the region. As a result, when medicine and the environment were discussed, they were used to highlight European technological and scientific advances in these fields, an...

This article explores, investigates, and details the developmental challenges and qualities of the independent doctoral researcher using evidence-based thematic analyses from studies conducted by Coffman, Putman, Adkisson, Kriner, & Monaghan (2016), Garcia & Yao...

A rigorous apologia for peer-reviewed literature for doctoral research. Articles which lack peer-review are objectively less valuable. According to Adamek (2015), peer-review is climacteric; that is, peer-review represents the most central and vital criteria in selectin...

The historical value of duplicates, damaged, and ‘worthless’ materials.