Publication

You've spent months collecting data, your results section is polished to perfection, and now you're staring at a blank page, wondering how on earth you're going to write a discussion that does justice to your hard work.

The discussion section is often the most challenging part of any research paper or dissertation to write, yet it's arguably the most important. It's where you transform raw findings into meaningful insights that advance your field.

The discussion section is your opportunity…

Remember that time you told a hilarious story to your friends, only to have someone pipe up with, "Hey, I told you that story last week!" Nothing worse than accidentally taking credit for someone else's work, right? Well, that's essentially what happens in academia when we forget to reference our sources – except the consequences are a tad more serious than a miffed friend.

I can clearly recall the uncertainty I felt when I did my very first research project, how I struggled to get my head ar…

This blog post will provide you with strategies to enhance your productivity and focus and help you get what needs to be published published. Our research needs to be published in order for it to become known to our fellow researchers, who will create new studies based on our research findings. Also, publishing your results allows others to use those findings to change policy and practice and, in that way, create an impact. This means that we have a responsibility to get our work published.

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Researchers entering into a collaboration for the first time often ask, “how does one decide who gets authorship and who gets acknowledged in the publication?”. Authorship can be quite sticky seeing that career progression and other academic rewards are at stake.

The discussion around authorship needs to take place in the early phases of the project, where you agree on who will contribute in what way to the project and paper. This is also the time to confirm who will not be authors on the pap…

In a research paper, a citation refers to a source of information. In-text citations are used in the body of the paper, while end-of-paper citations are found in the reference list at the end of the paper.

You may wonder why one would want to increase the number of citations to one’s paper. The number of times one’s research paper is cited is used as a measure of the reach (also referred to by some as impact) of a researcher’s work. The number of citations is used in various metrics, includin…