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Conducting Research
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
The pressure to publish or perish can make authors desperate to increase their publication count. However, being tempted to divide a single study and publish it as…
- Kakoli Majumder
- January 15, 2016
To circumvent the delays that are inevitable in the journal publication process, scientists these days post preprints of their articles. What exactly are preprints? Why…
- Kakoli Majumder
- May 31, 2016
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
In the highly competitive world of academic publishing, authorship related problems are insreasing, with authors not getting credit for their work, disagreements between…
- Dr. Shazia Khanam
- October 16, 2013
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…
- Kakoli Majumder
- May 5, 2014
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 21, 2014
Following this brief explanation of what plagiarism is – essentially, ‘borrowing’ pieces of text published elsewhere and incorporating them into your article without any…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 6, 2021
Dr. Tim Hunt is renowned for his work on cell cycle regulation for which he won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Dr. Lee Hartwell and Dr. Paul…
- Clarinda Cerejo
- September 29, 2015
An author’s degree of contribution to a study can sometimes be identified by the order in which the names appear in the byline of the publication, but it is usually very…
- Wolters Kluwer
- June 27, 2018