Academics and researchers must apply for grant funding. These grants provide the financial support required to carry out the research proposed in the grant. These funds are used to purchase equipment, pay salaries, cover publication and travel costs, etc. Being successful in a national funding competition is a key indicator of success. Not only can the researchers carry out the
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Academics and scientists, especially those in administrative positions looking to rate their peers/staff/candidates, have traditionally used impact factors as an indicator of quality and influence. Only the best, most trustworthy and innovative research gets published in journals with high impact factors. At least, that is what they would like us to believe… What is an impact factor? The impact factor
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In our “previous post”:”” we learned how to find an appropriate LaTeX template to write a scientific article. To illustrate how simple it is to download and start working with one of these templates, I used the example of preparing a paper for one of the PLOS journals. In this post we are going to add a little content to
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As researchers, we have to write and publish scientific papers to let the world know about our work. The process of preparing a scientific paper can be enjoyable, but it can also be arduous. Different journals and publishers have different requirements about how we should format our submission. The title page should include certain items, the headers should be bold
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Researchers love p-values, especially when they are significant. It has previously been demonstrated that there is a disproportionate number of positive or significant p-values. In other words, many reported p-values must be false. That is to say, they are associated with false-positive findings. In a recent article, Cristae & Ioannidis (2018) investigated the characteristics of p-values reported in figures and
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I’m into latex. No, not the kinky kind. I am talking about LaTeX, a typesetting system that has been around for more than 30 years. You can use LaTeX to write pretty much any kind of document, and the LaTeX community has contributed countless packages and templates to reduce your workload. These packages and resources can be found at https://ctan.org/.
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