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What is Bias in Research? The act of a researcher influencing the process of a systematic investigation either knowingly or unknowingly is termed as "Bias in Research". Research bias is one of the reasons for the poor validity of research…

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 lacks motivation, has indifferent work habits, or quits…

Open access journals operate on a fee based business model. The author pays the publisher a fee and in return the journal reviews his manuscript for quality, offers editorial advice, and ultimately publishes the paper for free dissemination…

After the unprecedented success of the Human Genome Project, many similar "megaprojects" that were previously dismissed as beyond our current research capabilities have been revisited! One of these was a project to map what…

Before you begin to write your research article, it is essential to have a clear idea about the intended readers, the impact of your research, and the target journals that generally publish such studies. A suitable set of journals should be…

Open access repositories or archives are intended for researchers to contribute to the results of their research. This builds up an information and knowledge bank that is easily, and in most instances, freely accessible to everybody.…

Although I like to think that fraud in academic publications is rare, there have been a number of cases where researchers have had to withdraw supposedly groundbreaking research papers when it became apparent that the results were…

On November 16, 2010, Crimson Interactive (Enago) won the Red Herring Top 100 companies in the Asia-Pacific region for 2010 award in Shanghai, China. Crimson (Enago) was the only academic editing company that made it to the top 100.…

The realization of human births through In Vitro (within glass) Fertilization (IVF), commonly referred to as “test-tube babies,” represented a giant advance in the treatment of infertility. It created hope for couples who could not conceive…

It is the thinnest material ever created, yet its wondrous properties will have a tremendous impact on our lives in the future! This miracle material is graphene, which is nothing but a single layer of carbon atoms. It is the first in a…