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Inaccurate usage of scientific and technical terms can give out the impression that you do not have in-depth knowledge of the subject. Naturally, peer reviewers are…
- Kakoli Majumder
- November 27, 2019
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Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiome and science integrity consultant and founder of the Microbiome Digest blog. Dr. Bik’s pro bono efforts to help identify instances of…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- August 8, 2019
A Russian website offering authorship in accepted research papers for a price is being probed for malpractice. Read on to know the reaction of the industry to this…
- Irfan Syed
- July 28, 2019
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Are you confused between some elements of a research paper? Do you often mistake one for another? This article lists some of the most commonly confused elements of a…
- Fatima Qureshi
- July 17, 2019
Newer forms of unethical practices are on the rise in the acdemic publishing world, taking unsuspecting authors by surprise. When a dissatisfied author gives a negative…
- Kakoli Majumder
- March 15, 2019
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Your research project must attempt to fill in a gap in knowledge to make a novel contribution to science. For your article get published in an influential journal, you…
- Fatima Qureshi
- February 25, 2019
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What are the types of biases faced by qualitative researchers? Are there any means to avoid them? This article will help you identify 7 different types of biases in…
- Dr. Shivanee Shah
- January 3, 2019
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When it comes to academic publishing, typically, researchers think of publishing original articles, which form the bulk of primary research articles. The research that…
- Dr. Shivanee Shah
- December 21, 2018
A journal editor discovers an overlap between one of his journal’s published articles and two other articles published in different journals. The editor suspects that…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 13, 2018
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Research can be broadly classified into two categories, qualitative research and quantitative research. Quantitative research answers questions like "how much," while…
- Preeti Raghunath
- September 25, 2018