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There are two distinct manuscripts in the world of an academic journal: solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. We will look at the difference between both these types of manuscripts/ Solicited vs. Unsolicited Manuscripts Solicited…

When your journal article gets accepted or you are preparing for a public presentation, you will often be asked for a short academic biography. For many people, these academic bios are more difficult to write than a dissertation. How do you…

Nowadays, there is a huge demand for scientific literature reviews as they are especially appreciated by scholars or researchers when designing their research proposals. While finding information is less of a problem to them, discerning…

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…