How to Improve Your Academic Writing Using Language Corpora
No matter how brilliant a researcher you are, you must be able to write about your research effectively to have any impact on the scientific world. Unfortunately for most of us,…
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Chasing the P-Value: Statistical Significance and the Perils of P-Hacking
In the world of research, we learn about the importance of statistical significance. The p-value (the p stands for “probability”) is crucial. Usually, a p-value of less than 0.05…
What if Your Manuscript Has Wrong Citations?
Something that every true research paper has in common is a large number of citations. When writing a paper, researchers may mention other work that inspired their study, supports…
Scientific Posters: An Effective Way of Presenting Research
Scientific publications such as manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations aid in disseminating clinical data to the scientific world and maintain transparency of the…
Want to Publish in PLOS Journals? Here’s What You Need to Know
“Getting rejections from top tier journals is very frustrating because publication is key to getting your findings known, as well as for obtaining grants,” says Yvonne…
Ten Reasons Why Elsevier Journals Reject Your Article
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Publishing is a critical part of any successful researcher’s career. But getting published in well-known and…
An Editor-in-Chief’s Take: Addressing Post Acceptance/Publication Changes of Manuscripts
Requests to make alterations to manuscripts after they have been accepted is very rare. Editors do not maintain a systematic record of such cases. Therefore it is difficult to say…
Why Researchers Need to Work Towards Equal Authorship
In the past, authorship lacked a clear set of guidelines and sometimes excluded individuals who had contributed to a paper. The hierarchy of first author, second author, and…
Preproducibility Preceeds Reproducibility in Research
Reproducibility is vital to research practice. Fundamentally, it means that different researchers use the same method, under the same conditions, and they should get similar…
“Statistical Significance” a Term of the Past?
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What do you do when you are trying to decide if your treatment is effective?
In your research study,…
Checklist: Guide For Writing a Successful GPF Application Essay
This checklist will guide the students through the GPF application writing and submission process. GPF or Global PhD Fellowship is organized by Korean Research Foundation. This…
Hybrid Journals – Are Publishers Double Dipping?
Free access to research is essential to the growth of a field. It allows all researchers – including those who cannot afford journal subscriptions – access to information. This…