I recently had the opportunity to talk to a prolific Japanese researcher—let’s call him Dr. K—about how he writes his research manuscripts in English. As Dr. K’s first language is…

Preparing your manuscript for journal submission is possibly one of the most nerve-wracking steps in a researcher’s publishing journey. This is also the stage where most researchers make errors that…

While writing your research manuscript, you must have come across words with a difference in meaning so slight that it made you wonder which one to choose. In some cases,…

Every research paper builds on prior research, and this process begins with a literature review—the crux of scholarly research. In academic publications, citations and references constitute the sources—published and unpublished—consulted…

Imagine reading a research paper that not only offers you some great insight but is written and presented in the most engaging way. The language is polished, the grammar impeccable,…

As a researcher, one of the most common fears while submitting a research paper to a top journal is having it rejected. In 2019, the editors of Elsevier’s Journal of…

There is a major difference in the use of the words affect vs. effect when it comes to using them in your research papers. We know it takes you a…

So imagine this, you’ve completed your research and are ready to share it with the world, now all you need is to write a good academic paper. But despite having…

English has long been established as the language of scholarly publishing, with 95% of the research output being published in English-language journals.1 On the other hand, poor language or grammar…