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Conducting Research
This article includes pointers to help you pay attention to those details that often escape attention and avoid some obvious errors when intending to publish scientific…
- Ishani Bhattacharya
- June 12, 2017
You have been working hard on your research project for months and the data it has generated are promising. You feel now is the right time to start writing your first…
- Yateendra Joshi
- April 30, 2018
In the field of health studies, qualitative research is often believed to lack scientific rigor and therefore less useful than empirical studies. To counter this…
- Marisha Fonseca
- February 5, 2015
Martin McCarvill holds a master’s degree in linguistics and has an experience of over seven years in academic writing, editing, and reviewing.
- Editage Insights
- June 16, 2014
Research nearly always involves measuring and counting: drawing inferences based on quantitative data is one of the distinguishing characteristics of science.
- Yateendra Joshi
- March 17, 2014
The STAP stem cells situation, as I write this down, represents a can of worms whose lid has been pried open by scores of scholarly commentators, most of them active…
- Satyajit Rout
- March 11, 2014
At the beginning of each scholarly article, beneath the title, is a list of the authors. We get so used to writing our name, together with the names of our co-authors…
- Nick Rushby
- January 15, 2018
This post reviews the book Writing for Science Journals: Tips, Tricks, and a Learning plan, an immensely useful resource for authors
- Yateendra Joshi
- May 12, 2015
While reviewing an author’s manuscript, our publication expert observed that the result of an experiment seemed highly improbable and one of the images provided seemed…
- Editage Insights
- November 24, 2014
A question that we often get asked is how to review related literature. This post discusses what an RRL is, why it's important, and some best practices to write an…
- Malvika Gaur
- January 6, 2023