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The full screenshots and some more information can be seen in my blog post: Internet search on: how to improve software development skills in Indian CS IT academia, gives my Dec. 2012 paper within top three results even now in Jan 2020, https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2020/01/internet-search-on-how-to-improve.html [short link: http://bit.ly/2u1cjW1 ], 31st Jan. 2020.

Now my Dec. 2012 paper mentioned above is a preprint paper which has not been published in a peer-reviewed academic publication. However, I have truthfully recorded the rejection comments from a noted international Computer Science education academic publication, which I received when I had submitted it to them for review (2nd round, if I recall correctly). I have also given my responses to the rejection comments.

At that time, if I recall correctly, I felt that I should not modify my paper to suit what I considered to be narrow academic viewpoints of the academic reviewers. I thought that would result in significant loss in the key suggestions and thoughts I had espoused in the paper. So I simply froze the paper in Dec. 2012 as a preprint in arxiv.org and did not make any further submissions of the paper to any academic publication.

What I had not anticipated was that an earlier version of that paper (also available on arxiv.org) would get cited by one published paper (see Ref-1) and that the Dec. 2012 version (frozen/final version) would get cited by a PhD thesis (see Ref-2).

Ref-1. Ahmed Saleem Abbas et. al, "A literature review and classification of selected software engineering researches", International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET) – Volume 2 No. 7, July, 2012, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wilson_Jeberson/publication/265886949_A_Literature_Review_and_Classification_of_Selected_Software_Engineering_Researches/links/560f943e08ae48337517e1a8/A-Literature-Review-and-Classification-of-Selected-Software-Engineering-Researches.pdf [Short link: http://bit.ly/31haQa0 ].

Ref-2. Ashutosh Madhukar Kulkarni, MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE (ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECT) IN CAREER PLANNING OF STUDENTS DURING 2007-2013 WITH REFERENCE TO SELECTED MCA INSTITUTES IN PUNE REGION, Ph.D. Thesis, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune (Maharashtra, India), April 2015, http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10603/86727 [Short link: http://bit.ly/3b6xNkM ].

But it is still quite a surprise to me to see the top search ranking given to my paper in Google Scholar search for terms related to: improve teaching of software development in Indian CS academia.

The key search terms for which Google Scholar lists my above mentioned Dec. 2012 paper in top ten results are:

1st rank: improve teaching of software development in Indian CS academia

1st rank: improve software development skills in Indian CS academia

2nd rank: improve practice of software development in Indian Computer Science academia

3rd rank: improve teaching of software development in Indian Computer Science academia

2nd rank: improve software development skills in Indian Computer Science academia

3rd rank: improve software development skills in Indian Information Technology academia

3rd rank: improve teaching of software development in Indian Information Technology academia

3rd rank: improve practice of software development in Indian Information Technology academia

1st rank: improve teaching of software development in Indian CS higher education

1st rank: improve software development skills in Indian CS higher education

1st rank: improve practice of software development in Indian CS higher education

7th rank: improve software development skills in Indian Computer Science higher education

7th rank: improve practice software development Indian Computer Science higher education

3rd rank: improve practice of software development in CS academia

2nd rank: improve teaching of software development in CS academia

1st rank: improve software development skills in CS academia

4th rank: improve practice of software development in CS higher education

3rd rank: poor software engineering skills of Indian Computer Science graduates

2nd rank: poor software development skills of Indian Computer Science graduates

10th rank: improve software engineering skills of Indian Computer Science graduates

1st rank: improve teaching of software engineering in Indian CS academia

1st rank: improve software engineering in Indian CS academia

3rd rank: improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia

4th rank: improve software engineering education in Indian Computer Science academia

1st rank: improve software engineering in Indian CS higher education

 

Given below are a few cropped screenshots showing some of these Google Scholar search results.