Impact of Performance-Based Research Funds on Researchers
Money for quality. Encouraging research excellence by allocating funds to reward high performance sounds like a good idea. The goal is clear: increase the quality of research and…
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Where Else Can Researchers Find Support If the Advisor Is Not Helping Enough?
Isolation, anxiousness, search for perfection, researching failures, and stress—these are only some of the many problems PhD students usually cope with at some point in their…
Guide on Scholarly Research Funding
If you are an individual with research you believe to be valuable and essential to the academic world, but you have no means to publish your work, then you may want to consider…
Six Things Every PhD Student Should Refuse to Do in Order to Be Successful
There are several things a PhD student must do to in order to succeed. There are also things a student must not do if he or she wants to be successful. Here are six things you…
How to Deal With Your Supervisor Claiming the Authorship of Your Research Paper
Among the unethical practices that exist in the academic publishing field, there is a practice that really bothers researchers: gift authorship. Sometimes, senior supervisors or…
Coping With the Challenges Faced by Research Students
Graduate school is an exciting time but it can also be a stressful time, with students facing many new challenges. Here are some of the typical challenges along with pointers on…
Why Do Students Pursue a PhD Program?
For a research advisor, graduate school is a considerable investment of time that would finally result in his students’ research getting published. He would not want a student who…