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Are We Obsessed with Applied Research? The debate between the respective merits of basic or pure research and applied research is a heated one, especially when research budgets are under review. Advocates of applied research argue that…

Researchers are always looking for ways to increase the reading and citing of their publications. Kudos is a web-based service that aims at helping them do just that. On Kudos, researchers may do the following: (1) post links to their…

Academics generally expect that they will be recognized and rewarded based on the merits of their work. But as the numbers of new PhDs continue to rise, for many of us, research alone will not be enough. Networking—face-to-face interaction…

Where Should You Look to Benchmark? Until an allegedly lost manuscript was found in January 2015, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mocking Bird, was presumed to have written and published only one book (albeit a worldwide literary…

If your friends ask you where you are going on vacation this year, would your response be: “We may go to Disneyland,” or “We might go to Disneyland.”? What’s the difference, I hear you ask. For many writers, the terms are…

Tainan, Taiwan: Enago recently conducted another workshop in Taiwan that aimed at helping researchers understand how they can improve their changes of publication in international peer-reviewed journals. The workshop, which was…

The Temptation of Overcomplication? Teachers are familiar with the tricks their students attempt to use when looking to hit targets of a specific number of words for an assignment. All of a sudden, the word ‘now’ becomes “at this precise…

What’s in a name? Nothing, according to Shakespeare, but a researcher thinks otherwise. We want credit for our work and don’t want to give credit to anyone else, or take credit for any work but our own. This is a real problem in today’s…

If you are a medical researcher investigating a drug’s effect on the body, after gathering data you have a choice: should you publish all the data and conclusions in one paper? Probably so, because of the inter-relation of the data and its…

It’s a Lot Like Dating You may not need to resort to Match.com or eHarmony.com, but the process of finding a collaborator for your research study can be just as nerve racking. But to begin with, there’s no need to change your hairstyle,…