Rising Scholars News

Assigning authorship to scientific articles is serious business that can make or break a journal's reputation.

Publication in high-impact journals offers an opportunity to disseminate original research, results and insights to a wider, global audience, but it requires extreme patience and high-quality writing skills.

We are pleased to announce that our next open online course will start on 16th May.

Ravi Murugesan offers reflections on how AuthorAID's training initiative has evolved since 2008.

Reproducing previously published figures or images is usually allowed, but you have to do your due diligence to obtain permission.

Barbara Gastel shares some key points from Chapter 1 of "How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper," 9th edition

Edmond Sanganyado discusses the challenges in communicating to a global audience and how you can be global without losing local relevancy.

Attracting readers to your research papers in 2023 may be challenging given the huge information overload and noise. 

 

Kojo Ahiakpa and Benjamin Karikari provide a summary of the basic components that a normal research article ought to contain, including detailed information that should be contained in each section.

Literature maps and matrices enable researchers to visually represent and analyse journal articles in context.