The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) checklist is a list of items related to how systematic reviews and meta-analyses should be reported. This article discusses how to use the PRISMA checklist meaningfully.

When setting off to produce either a systematic review or a meta-analysis, you are likely going to be thinking about things that need to be done from a research perspective. However, registration may not be at the forefront of your mind. This article discusses the importance of registering rigorous reviews such as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and the factors to consider when doing so.

Perhaps one of the most accessible forms of academic publication, a book review can be written by researchers at any stage of their career. This article explains the process of initiating and writing a book review. At the end, it also provides a couple of examples of good book reviews.

It can be extremely fruitful and enlightening to collaborate with researchers from across the globe to hear different points of view, and get the most out of a project. This article discusses the reasons for collaborating on a research project as well as the best practices for a successfull research collaboration.

Building your research paper around a narrative format can help the reader follow the ‘story’ of what you’re bringing across more easily, thus enabling them to absorb the information more readily. This article discusses the benefits of telling a story in your research paper and shares some pointers for doing it well.

The terms ‘conceptual framework’ and ‘theoretical framework’ are commonly used in referring to the overall structure that shapes a research project. This article explains the differences between them and also provides pointers on how to go about constructing each framework.

Scientific literature is categorised as either primary or secondary literature. This article delves into the differences between the two, and also addresses the question of which type of literature is allowed to use which as a reference.

Grey literature is literature other than the more formal ‘academic’ forms of research papers, journal articles, books or conference proceedings. This article outlines some of the key details about grey literature and how to use it in your research.

Have you considered looking beyond academic sources to find other types of relevant work in your field? In this article, we explain how to look for and engage with non-traditional forms of literature for your literature reviews. 

A bibliography is a list of sources appended to a research paper for readers to consult if they wish to obtain more information on anything covered in the paper in question. This article offers information about a bibliography and also explains how it differs from a reference list.

In this webinar, hear our expert panel share strategies on how you can get published in high-impact journals.

In this webinar, held to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, a researcher and an academic trainer discuss the importance of researcher wellbeing and mental health for researcher success.

In this webinar, our panel discusses how to deal with a predatory publisher and shares tips for how you can avoid submitting to a predatory journal.

This article suggests several strategies you can adopt to promote your accepted or published paper for increasing the chances of it getting cited.

This article discusses ways in which you can plan and write your paper to ethically and organically increase its chances of citation once published. There are several measures you can adopt before starting the actual writing, during the writing stage and through self-citing.

The difference between a concept paper and a research proposal lies mostly in the level of detail and the potential audience, based on which your approach towards writing each will vary. In this article, we dig deeper into the differences between a concept paper and a research proposal and recommend when to use which.

Having mentally formulated the necessary steps to conduct and complete a piece of research, you might now be wondering how to articulate this effectively to communicate your work to your peers. This is where a research proposal comes in. This article provides essential pointers for writing a successful research proposal.

This article is the second in a two-article series on the casing of chemical compounds. This article explains the rules for capitals and small capitals. 

In this two-article series, we offer some tips on the casing of chemical compounds. In the first article here, we look at rules for lowercase prefixes.

In academic writing, people naturally want to come across as being objective, and this often includes using the ‘passive voice’. But exactly what is the passive voice (vis-à-vis the active voice), and is it always right to use it in academic writing? This article explains what the active and passive voices are and gives some suggestions about when to use each.