Hema Thakur

Associate Editor, Humanities, Editage

Passionate about helping ESL authors and students publish quality research, which motivated her to teach and develop content for them.

Tips to cure a researcher’s block: Let the words and inspiration flow!

As an academic, experiencing creative and motivational blocks is commonplace. The good news is that there’s more than one way to deal with them. In this article, we've listed techniques you can use to ward off your researcher's block.

5 Tips for academic writing, poetry style

Our guest authors are passionate about research and its communication – so passionate that they turn into composers! Here’s a short poem on academic writing from one of our guest authors that shares some tips to help you create a well-written manuscript.

Have you looked beyond publishing your paper? A perspective on reproducible research

A published paper is not the end, but a means to the larger picture – the actual research itself – which is broader in scope than the paper. This post talks about the how the propositions in research do not cease to exist once a theory is supported or when a paper is published and how researchers can ensure that their work can be replicated.

Behind the scenes: Unmonitored managers and the quiet life hypothesis

Economists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology tested the quiet life hypothesis in the context of management in Japan and suggested mechanisms to address the challenges it poses. This article discusses their diagnostic and prescriptive research, which would appeal to practitioners and academicians in the fields of management, finance, and regulation, beyond the study area, given the global relevance of monitoring in the wake of recent economic crises.