Rising Scholars News

Points from chapters 2 and 3 of How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 9th edition 

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

Smart research objectives can guide your research and give readers a better understanding of the entire research project. 

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

Somefun Oluwaseyi suggests ways to achieve set goals instead of New Year's reolutions -- and stick to them.

Olumide Odeyemi encourages scientific collaboration among postgraduate research students beyond the laboratory or shared co-supervisors.

Researchers must ensure confidentiality of their subjects' personal information identifiers. They must be digitally literate to know how to minimize the risks of a data breach.

This blog highlights some of the ways to navigate ethical challenges in qualitative research. 

Only 29% of people in Africa have Internet access. This may cause sampling biases, in turn resulting in incorrect predictions of the behaviour of one's survey variables.

Review articles are very important in providing conclusive evidence in a scientific field. However, they demand meticulous training and understanding of the review process as well as expertise.