In my earlier post on authorship, I had discussed ICMJE guidelines that help researchers in deciding whether a contributor qualifies to be an author or not. In this post, I am going to discuss Read More
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A poster presentation is the perfect opportunity for you to highlight the importance of your research for people attending the conference. Posters are like billboards advertising a movie—they present in a nutshell the essence Read More
Many English-second language authors find it quite difficult to write concisely, because they cannot find appropriate words to substitute long phrases. In fact, conforming to a given word count limit is difficult for native English Read More
At a typical scientific conference, there are presentations, there are poster halls, there are lunches, there are snack breaks, and there are evening parties. For some researchers, the whole conference experience can almost be like Read More
In general, p values tell readers only whether any difference between groups, relationship, etc., is likely to be due to chance or to the variable(s) you are studying. According to most statistical guidelines, including Read More
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) defines a clinical trial as any research project wherein human subjects are prospectively assigned to an intervention group or a control group to study the cause-and-effect relationship Read More
Recent times have witnessed a drastic increase in the number of cases of scientific misconduct. In fact, the number of documented cases—(419 in 2012, which is twice the number in 2011)—is too large to be ignored. Read More
What are the most common mistakes authors make? I will share the views of a committee of journal editors, who are also the compilers of the popular medical style guide, the AMA (Association of Medical Read More
The number of published papers being retracted is increasing dramatically and is higher than ever before. Although retracted papers still represent a miniscule proportion of the total published literature, the rate of increase in retractions Read More
This article discusses a recently published piece of research that has been making waves and receiving a lot of attention in international science news. A group of three researchers affiliated to different institutions in Chicago, Read More