After you’ve spent months and maybe even years on your academic research and now finally have it published, what’s next? Will the general public read and understand your research? Will the article sit on someone’s shelf and collect dust or…

Journal databases are an important research tool to navigate prior to completing a well-organized research publication. Following on from the first steps of finding the right journal to publish, the exploration delineates by research topic…

Writing a good literature review is essential for any good research. In our previous articles in this series, we learned about databases used in literature review for life science and medicine. However, there are some databases that can be…

Researchers will no longer be able to comment on articles published on PubMed. The feature of PubMed Commons is about to be discontinued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This has left the researchers in a dilemma as they might…

Peer review of academic research is at the heart of publishing. It is important that this process is not tainted by reviewer bias. Two popular modes of review exist. In single-blind peer review, the authors do not know who the reviewers…