Yearly Archives

2018

Top 10 Handy E-Tools for Researchers

As a researcher, are you busy meeting deadlines, multi-tasking, updating yourself with advances in your field, networking with peers, and bogged down with dozens of other related activities? You need not worry any longer! With technological…

Top 10 Tips for Peer Reviewers

Peer review is essential to ensure the quality of research that is published in academic journals. It ensures manuscript and journal quality and is, therefore, a crucial aspect of the publication cycle. Peer reviewers are at the core of…

How to Use Units Correctly

Most research articles need units. When it comes to scientific writing, style guides ask authors to use unit symbols and discourage them from spelling out the actual unit (e.g., m instead of meter). Another common dilemma that researchers…

Virtual Dog to Prevent Dog Bites

Dog bites are quite common, so are the chances of acquiring rabies, especially with such a high number of stray dogs roaming outside. In fact, a UK-based hospital recorded 6,740 dog bites in 2013 alone. Yet, we do not get any education on…

Not All Ants Work Hard!

“Too many cooks spoil the broth.” We have come across this proverb on several instances. Well, this proverb is not only applicable to humans, but also to ants! According to a paper published recently in Science, only a few fire ants…
Researchers' Poll

What should be the top priority while integrating AI into the peer review process?