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Research Paper Competition – 4^th Edition

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The Albanian-American Development Foundation, through the CleanScore project, has enabled the access to JSTOR for all the public partner universities – www.jstor.org. Being one of the biggest digital libraries of academic journals, books, and primary sources, JSTOR provides useful materials to all the students, professors, and researchers of different disciplines.

In order to encourage the scientific research among students, as well as the use of the digital library JSTOR, CleanScore has undertaken the initiative of organizing the Research Paper Competition – 4^th edition.

The participation in this competition is open for all the students that are currently attending a study program at one of the High Education Institutions in Albania and in the region.

There is no limitation regarding the discipline of the research papers that will participate in the competition.

Admission criteria:

• Papers must adhere to the rules of the academic writing
• Papers must be original work and not contain plagiarism. The evaluation committee will conduct a check through the Akademia.al platform
• The research paper must be argumentative
• The paper must contain 2.000 – 2.500 words
• At least 50% of the references must be from JSTOR
• The paper should be in English

Winning papers will be announced at the end of the competition.

Important Months

15 February 2023	Submission period
March 2023	Selection and evaluation of the papers
April 2023	Announcement of the winners

• Technical criteria 

Layout: A4

Font: Times New Roman

Spacing: Single spaced

Font size: 12 pt

Margins: 1” at the four sides of the page

• The cover page must contain the following:

University details (Logo, University, Faculty, Department)

Student’s details (Name, Surname, Year of studies, Study Program)

Field of study & Paper theme 

• Content

The paper should be divided into: Introduction, Development, Conclusions and Recommendations.

Each paragraph must have at least one reference. Each page must have no less than 3 references and the referencing method must be the same for the entire paper.

• References

The bibliography should be on a separate page at the end of the paper and is not part of the total word count. The format of the bibliography should be the same as the one used in the paper.

To get more detailed information on the correct referral forms click the link below.

Paper Submission:

Papers will be sent to the following email address. Only those papers submitted before the announced deadline and by the current students of the regional universities, will be accepted in the competition.

JSTOR@CleanScore.al

During the time that the call is open, in order to help interested students in participating, CleanScore will organize online meetings with the participation of experienced lecturers in the field of research and publication. Open online events will be held to introduce students to the JSTOR platform.