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NIH’s Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
It is important for postdoctoral researchers to acquire important skills and appropriate training to transition into independent faculty members. The NIH’s Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) program is designed to mentor outstanding…
Reporting Statistical Results in Your Manuscript
Reporting key findings and statistical results is important to validate/support your hypothesis. These results help readers understand the correlation between (and significance of) different variables involved in the study. The statistics…
U.S. Green Card Tips for Researchers
U.S. offers employment-based visas to outstanding researchers and people with extraordinary ability and achievements in their field. The three visa categories, viz. EB-1A, EB-1B, and EB2-NIW enable researchers to expedite their green card…
How to Structure Manuscripts
A well-organized and a well-written manuscript is crucial for successful publication. Such manuscript is not only easy-to-understand but also catches reader’s attention. Journals usually recommend IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and…
How to Select the Right Journal
Selecting the right journal for manuscript submission is an important aspect of the publication process. With the increase in the number of journals, proliferation of areas of specialization, and emergence of inter-disciplinary fields,…
Research Ethics
You may have often heard the term “ethics”. For researchers, it is crucial to follow ethics not only when conducting research but also when publishing it. Various international institutions have outlined sets of principles or guidelines to…
Measuring the Impact of Your Research
Citation metrics provide a way to quantitatively measure the impact, quality, and significance of published research. These journal-level, author-level, and article-level metrics are considered to be indicative of the readership and…
Italicization of Latin Terms
Researchers often use Latin terms when drafting manuscripts for journal submission. The most commonly used terms include et al., ab initio, in vivo, in vitro, etc. However, authors often get confused about whether to italicize these terms…
Evaluating Quality of a Research Article
Researchers use knowledge from previously published work to form a new hypothesis or a problem statement. Therefore, when conducting the literature survey, it is crucial to identify relevant and high-quality research to avoid any fallacies…