Is Research Advancement Based on Quality or Quantity?
When new undergraduate students contemplate the academic career path ahead of them, the journey can appear to be quite steep. Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree enables…
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How to Effectively Paraphrase in a Research Paper
When writing a research paper, a researcher will often need to refer to a previous publication and summarize the findings in a paraphrase. Why? Because quoting the entire passage…
Improve Your English Grammar With These Resources
A google search on how to improve your English grammar gives about 9 million results in less than a second. Since English is the undeclared lingua franca in academic research, any…
How to Deal With the Dominance of English in Academic Publishing
The prevalence of the English language in modern academic research is more recent than we might assume. This article is specially written on Science Research Writing for Non-Native…
Why Is It Important to Follow Writing Style of the Journal?
Getting Published: Barriers to Entry
The most highly ranked or ‘prestigious’ academic journals have rejection rates of around 90%. Therefore, when preparing your article or…
Is the Day of the Citation over?
Rankings are Forever?
For decades, eager young researchers with a new article or paper to submit have been directed towards specific journals in their field based upon their…
How Scholarly Book Review Differs from an Article Review
Almost every week I read scholarly book reviews in Chemical and Engineering News. Fairly often in journals I read reviews of scientific articles previously published. Both reviews…
Is the Scientific Method Outdated?
The Scientific Method
Modern science is built on a foundation of the assumed purity of the scientific method.
The approach has remained unchanged—identify and define a problem,…
Have You Calculated Your H-Index?
As an academic researcher, the quality of your research publications has traditionally been measured by the prestige of the journals in which your work has been published. The…
Why Researchers Need Professional Research Translators?
Bridging the Language Gap
The predominance of English as the global language of science is an easily forgotten blessing for those scientists and researchers with English as their…
How to Address the Different Learning Styles of Your Audience
The Sage on the Stage
Being asked to present a paper at an academic conference can be a great honor. You are finally being recognized as an expert in your field, based on your…
When Does Fair Use Become Plagiarism?
What is Fair Use?
The term “fair use” refers to the legal, ethical, and limited use of copyrighted material, with no requirement for the permission of the copyright holder. In…