Make your writing clear Say what you mean For example, the sentence Parental involvement caused lower levels of peer problems. suggests direct causation. However, if this was an observational study, the two outcomes were probably observed to occur together, but direct causation was … [Read more...]
LaTeX Collaborative Authoring Tool on Overleaf Platform
ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. Overleaf is a collaborative platform: Authors can easily invite colleagues to collaborate on their document. Authors can write using 'Rich Text mode' or regular 'Source … [Read more...]
Impact Factor
Understanding journal impact factors What they are An impact factor is a metric for ranking scientific journals [1]. Impact factors are calculated for every two-year period by dividing the number of times articles were cited by the number of articles that are citable [2]. The following … [Read more...]
Conflict of Interest
What is Conflict of interest? “Conflict of interest is a set of conditions in which professional judgement concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) tends to be unduly influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain).” [1] What do you need … [Read more...]
How to write an effective abstract
An abstract is a short but fully-contained summary of a study. Its purpose is to entice readers into wanting to read the full paper. This poses a challenge, given the ever increasing volume of documents and texts. As such, an effective abstract is key for the dissemination of your research. An … [Read more...]
