How to Create and Use Gantt Charts
There are several tools available to help you plan your research project. They help you organize your thoughts and create a research plan against a timeline. One such tool is…
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Overleaf: Editable LaTeX Templates for IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer Journals
Most of the work published today is interdisciplinary and international, involving authors from different research areas and locations. In recent years, the cloud-based authoring…
What is RefWorks?
RefWorks, founded in 2001, provides web-based research management service for corporate, academic, and government organizations. Currently, RefWorks is used by over 900…
Argument Papers: Do They Facilitate Research Advancement?
Scientists and academics seek to advance knowledge by using data to argue a point. Indeed, academic writing often seeks to express a perspective and to support it with evidence.…
How to Cite the DOI of a Journal Article
DOI (digital object identifier) is an identification code for a journal article or other published works. The code was developed and introduced in 2000 by the International DOI…
Understanding Research Metrics: Journal-Level, Article-Level, and Author-Level
The word metrics means “measurement.” In the academic publishing industry, we measure the impact of published research based on various metrics. For example, we look at how many…
How to Write a Winning Academic Book Proposal
In the world of book publishing, it is difficult enough for known authors to get their books published, but even harder for researchers. After all, a dissertation comprises…
When to Use “e.g.” and “i.e.” While Writing Your Paper
We see them often in text, usually in parentheses, and we can usually figure out the context from the text before them, but what do those letters mean? The abbreviation “e.g.”…
Will Changing the P-Value Fix Reproducibility in Science?
When scientists conduct experiments, they want to be able to gauge how results are predicted—their simple hypothesis. More specifically, they study conditions that will test what…
Perspective, Opinion, and Commentary Pieces
It is important for researchers to decide the type of research article they are going to write and publish. The paper you write will depend mainly on the type of study conducted.…
7 Simple SEO Tips to Increase Research Paper Visibility
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) refers to ensuring that your manuscript can be found using search engines such as Google or Pubmed. After all, you’ve spent a lot of time on your…
Expressing Rates and Numbers in Scientific Notation
When you conduct a study that uses samples and chemicals, your methods section usually reports such measurements. Sometimes, when numbers, ratios, or rates that are very large or…