Writing and Publishing Research Papers: Tips n'Tricks

The goal of this blog article is to provide an easy-to-follow guide, a template, for writing a clinical research article (STEM). We will discuss each of the main sections in turn, following the basic – and familiar – IMRAD article structure, but with modifications specific to clinical research (IMRAD = IMRAD = Introduction, Materials, Results and Discussion). Let’s start off by thinking a little more about clinical research.

And here, the paper: A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes: this is certainly true in academic papers. How can you ensure that the figures and images you use in your writing are as effective as possible at communicating your message? Here are a few suggestions that you might like to have a think about the next time you put together a paper for publication. The first, and perhaps most important, rule is: know your audience.

We’ve talked about the concepts of Open Research in the context of Preprints and Preprint Servers in an earlier article : The basic idea that research results, including the publications that result, should be freely available for all to see, download, read, and cite.

A world famous US-based pizza company rose to prominence in the 1970s because they claimed to be able to deliver to any address within a certain area inside 30 minutes of any phoned-in customer order. As a working (and very busy) academic researcher and editor, I started to think: How do I manage my time? How many tasks per day do I put off until later? I made a list: most of the things I ‘put off’ until later are boring tasks, things that I know I could just do tomorrow.

Recently did a webinar on peer review. Managing the process with a friend in disguise! For many people, peer review is an tough process: You get out the other end with your paper accepted, or not, feeling like you’ve been through the wringer. It should not be like this: Peer review should be a positive, career-enhancing process.

Could not load video. Share How do I get started writing an academic paper? 14 tips for success Before beginning to write, THREE things are needed: A message, your audience (= target journal), and a structure for the writing. Structure comes from your target journal and a quick re-cap of some key things to know about article contents. Tips for success. Here’s a helpful summary from Mohamed N. Sharafeldin, a young researcher based at Mansoura University in Egypt (thanks!).

Welcome to one of the most common questions we are asked in workshops and webinars. Sadly, researchers are often scared or nervous about communicating with journal editors once they’ve made their submission. But they also want to know about updates on the status of their paper, especially if they can see (via the online submission system) that nothing has changed for a good few weeks. “I’ve been waiting for news on my submitted paper for months. Nothing has changed on the online submission system.

We all want to get our research papers written up and published in the best journals possible, as fast as possible, and with the minimum of trouble. You can’t just write up and submit anything though: there are rules to follow, ethical rules. These apply for both conducting research and writing up papers for publication.

One of the more common kinds of papers we write as academics are so-called ‘review papers’. In addition to regular peer-reviewed research articles, of course. Colleagues very often ask about ‘review papers’ in workshops and advice groups. Won’t it be easier for me to write a review paper than a regular article at the start of my career? Can you give me some advice and templates to help me put together a review article?

We write papers and submit them for publication in peer-reviewed journals as academic researchers in order to (i) advance the state of knowledge in our field and (ii) enhance our own careers. Be honest: Which of these two motivations is most important for you? Want to write a highly cited paper? Share These two reasons are the fundamental motivations for publishing academic research: We want colleagues to both read and cite our work in their own papers in the future.