I have finished writing my paper and plan to submit it next week. However, I'm totally confused about creating keywords. Which keywords will be most effective for my paper? Are there any fixed rules to be followed for creating these? Also, how many keywords are required for an original research article?
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6 Answer to this questionKeywords are words that capture the essence of your paper. Keywords make your paper searchable and ensure that you get more citations. Therefore, it is important to include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors find your paper.
Here are a few tips that will help you create relevant and effective keywords for your paper:
1. Think from the point of view of the reader. What keywords would the reader search for that would help retrieve your article?
2. Keywords should ideally be phrases of 2-4 words; single word keywords are acceptable, but they may lead to many false matches.
3. Keywords should contain words and phrases that suggest what the topic is about. Also include words and phrases that are closely related to your topic. (For example, if the paper is about heart diseases, use words like stroke, circulatory system, blood, etc.
4. Also use variants terms or phrases that readers are likely to use (For example, if the paper is about spine disorders, use words like spinal cord, vertebral column, backbone, etc.)
5. The full forms of shortened words or acronyms and abbreviations should be included as well.
Journals ask for anywhere between 3-8 keywords. However, I would say it is good to have 4-5 keywords ready, and add more depending on the journal requirement.
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Since 2014, criminal cases opened against NGOs in Azerbaijan and plus the banish of foreign donors from the country have damaged both civil society and political parties. In particular, local organizations legally stopped their operation or went to marginalize due to lack of finance. I want to make a research about the point that how did the campaign that the Azerbaijani government led against civil society affect political parties and democracy? As a result, where did the youth working or cooperating with those organizations go? How did the reforms that were made in Georgia and Armenia between 2014 and 2018 and the marginalization of the public and political situation in Azerbaijan affect the youth groups? In addition, what mistakes did Civil Society make in that time? In general, can the chiefs of NGOs and civil society be represented in politics? Can they make declarations? May one of the reasons for the marginalization of democracy in Azerbaijan be the mutual influence of civil society and political parties to each other? Moreover, after the civil society got collapsed or marginalized, the influence of neighboring power countries such as Russia and Iran on Azerbaijan is of great importance for me, and I do want to show its terrible results because the religious flows imposed by Iran may affect youth in our society, cause them to deviate from European values and turn towards other groups with fundamentalist values. Last, how can we overcome all these? How can we get civil society out of the current situation through cooperation? I think that the most important issue should be this. In my opinion, as an NGO, we do true stuff. Indeed, by working on the issues such as gender, education, NGOs may not only escape from the marginalization but also may change the deteriorated situation prevalent in our country. In fact, although above-mentioned points may seem practical activity rather than an academic point of view, I think that the effectiveness of researches become less in value without the knowledge and research of environment. When NGOs are weakened purposefully, meanwhile nationalism flow with increased popularity in the world into the country has happened. While NGOs have weakened, the nationalist groups in the regions of Azerbaijan have risen in the number. It means that the increased popularity of radical activism is due to the spoiled democracy and human rights in the country. As a research topic, instead of choosing academically challenging topics, I would rather choose this kind of topics with real outcomes because I think this kind of topics will not only benefit me, but also civil society a lot.
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