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A paper has a greater chance of publication when it involves a full-scale study, rather than a fragment of a larger study. Read more to learn about the practice of “…

The title, abstract, and keywords are one of the most important elements to publication success. A negligent or sloppy attitude towards these three vital elements in the research paper format…

So you’ve completed your study and published your paper in the journal of your choice. Now you want to make your paper accessible to more and more readers within and…

In recent years, many research groups have been working independently to develop metrics that measure the impact of published research. The journal impact factor is a…

Science demands precision, and part of mastering a subject involves learning the exact differences between words that mean more or less the same thing. An entomologist…

How can you measure the quality of a research paper? More importantly, how can you determine whether your research is making an impact and is considered important? An…

This article delves a little deeper into the fallacies of the impact factor and points that you should consider when using it.

Tables and figures, although important components of many research papers, are just that—components; you can publish a paper without them but you cannot publish tables…

The peer review process for journal publication is essentially a quality control mechanism. It is a process by which experts evaluate scholarly works, and its…

Constructions like ‘the data reveal that’, ‘Table 1 shows that’, or ‘Figure 2 indicates that’ are common in research papers. But do you know how to use the terms "to…