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5 Things you must not forget when reporting psychological experiments

The article offers some suggestions on aspects of experimental research that are important, especially from the perspective of making the study reproducible. The…
5 Things you must not forget when reporting psychological experiments

Safeguard your manuscript against suspected data fabrication and image duplication

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…
Safeguard your manuscript against suspected data fabrication and image duplication
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Expert advice on reading scientific literature as a habit

Literature reading is critical to scientific research because this habit will generate a sense of appreciation and passion for science. Read this article for expert…
Expert advice on reading scientific literature as a habit
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Protecting the identity of enrolled subjects in case reports and clinical trials

Protecting the identity of enrolled patients is of utmost importance in clinical studies. However, sometimes, if the study involves facial features, it can be difficult…
Protecting the identity of enrolled subjects in case reports and clinical trials

"A good English paper is the one that knows what it’s trying to achieve and how to do so."

Martin McCarvill holds a master’s degree in linguistics and has an experience of over seven years in academic writing, editing, and reviewing.
"A good English paper is the one that knows what it’s trying to achieve and how to do so."
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Case study: The need for informed consent

Case: The study proposed a new wound healing technique and involved needle puncture on patients from two medical centers. It was mentioned in the paper that an…
Case study: The need for informed consent
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Publication ethics problems don't spare any discipline

"Many journals are not only seeing more problems, the cases also seem to be becoming more complex." Dr. Hames discusses how current ethical issues across the…
Publication ethics problems don't spare any discipline

New CrossMark service alerts readers to changes in published scholarly works: Highlights from a session at SSP 2014

We are familiar with the concept of "edition" in published books but what about scholarly articles? Jeffrey Beall reports his observations of a panel presentation…
New CrossMark service alerts readers to changes in published scholarly works: Highlights from a session at SSP 2014
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What would happen if you lost all your data?

Imagine what would happen if you woke up to realize all your research data is lost! It is possibly a researcher’s worst nightmare, something some unfortunate researchers…
What would happen if you lost all your data?
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Defining authorship: A taxonomy to assign contributor roles in multi-author papers

With digitalization and open access being the order of the day, science is becoming increasingly collaborative in nature. This article discusses authorship and how the…