By Mike Lacy
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Finding research papers is not particularly hard. There are millions of them. The real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox will highlight four tools for finding journal articles related to your actual interests ...
This post was contributed by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles with reproducibility at some point. Usually it comes up when a researcher decides on a new project and begins by trying to reproduce someone else’s ...
This post was contributed by Magdalena Julkowska, a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. From the perspective of an author submitting a paper, the peer-review seems like another dragon to slay on the way to publish your work in a scientific journal. The peer-review is ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Girija Goyal, cofounder of ReFigure. Reading and exploration including replications and experiments resulting in “negative data” often dominate the early years of a project. Dissemination of the knowledge gained during this period ...
Writing a review article is a wonderful way to develop and exercise your scientist skill set. If you dread the thought of writing a review, or if you’re currently stuck trying to write one, hopefully this post will help you get things moving - remember you're becoming an expert ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Sean Stacey who recently attended both online and on site courses with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute. Writing is the cornerstone of any scientist’s career. We use writing to ...
This post was contributed by Johnna Roose. This post was originally published on Johnna's New Under The Sun Blog and is part of her larger tutorial series, A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Scientific Manuscripts. Any scientific manuscript will require numerous other references to ...