“Statistical Significance” – A Term of the Past?
What do you do when you are trying to decide if your treatment is effective?
In your research study, there are two groups (or more), where one group (or the test group) of…
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How (and Why!) to Write a Great Lay Summary
Millions of scientific articles are published every year and important scientific breakthroughs are happening daily. Scientific research is one of the most important foundations of…
How to Improve Your Academic Writing Using Language Corpora
No matter how brilliant a researcher you are, you must be able to write about your research effectively to have any impact on the scientific world. Unfortunately for most of us,…
Chasing the P-Value: Statistical Significance and the Perils of P-Hacking
In the world of research, we learn about the importance of statistical significance. The p-value (the p stands for “probability”) is crucial. Usually, a p-value of less than 0.05…
What If Your Manuscript Has Wrong Citations?
Something that every true research paper has in common is a large number of citations. When writing a paper, researchers may mention other work that inspired their study, supports…
Scientific Posters: An Effective Way of Presenting Research
Scientific publications such as manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations aid in disseminating clinical data to the scientific world and maintain transparency of the…
Preproducibility Preceeds Reproducibility in Research
Reproducibility is vital to research practice. Fundamentally, it means that different researchers use the same method, under the same conditions, and they should get similar…
Checklist: Guide For Writing a Successful GPF Application Essay
This checklist will guide the students through the GPF application writing and submission process. GPF or Global PhD Fellowship is organized by Korean Research Foundation. This…
3 Ways to Effectively Manage a Research Grant
After putting in grueling weeks and months preparing your grant proposal, there is nothing better than clicking on that email that says your work has paid off; you got the grant!…
Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages of Questionnaires in Survey Research
All research studies require a range of data to analyze. Questionnaires and surveys are essential tools for gathering this necessary information. These tools can be used not only…
Hybrid Journals – Are Publishers Double Dipping?
Free access to research is essential to the growth of a field. It allows all researchers – including those who cannot afford journal subscriptions – access to information. This…
Avoid These Common Grammatical Errors in Your Paper
Researchers truly feel a sense of worth when their manuscript gets published. However, a researcher’s heart can sink when a manuscript is rejected due to grammatical errors. This…