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Salamualaikum What is the most important steps you must do in order to produce high quality research? Do you know which journal to read and cite for your phd?  It started from journals and readings you read.  Find out top journal in economic area for your research. Here are some list I retrieved from  IDEA The rankings Rank Journals Score 1 The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press 1.87 2 Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press 2.15 3 American Economic Review, American Economic Association 3.11 4 Econometrica, Econometric Society  4.38 (also covers Econometrica, Econometric Society ) 5 Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier 5.49 6 Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association 5.82 7 Journal of Finance, American Finance Association 8.05 8 Journal of Economic Growth, Sprin

Salamualaikum, Are you having difficulties to find secondary data for your thesis? Here check out this blog, freind of mine.  http://researchmaniac16.blogspot.my/2016/02/data-statistics-related-to-economics.html All of them are available for free. 1.  ASEAN statistics 2.  Asian Development Bank 3.  Asian Regional Integration Centre 4.  International Monetary Fund (IMF) 5.  World Health Organisation (WHO) 6.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 7.  The World Bank 8.  UN data 9.  Transparency International 10.  MIX Market - on microfinance 11.  United Nations Statistics Division 12.  International Labor Organisation (ILO) 13.  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 14.  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 15.  The UN Refugee Agency 16.  UN Office on Drugs and Crime 17.  International Telecommunication Union 18.  World Tourism Organisation 19.  UNICEF - Childr