Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

A successful paper should have a (brief) methodology section that not only explains the methods used, but also justifies them. If, for example, your data comes from written surveys rather than ...

Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there ...

Grading Rubric: Final Research Paper Anthropology. Distribution of paper grade determined by the five key components of a paper: Thesis and Motive (20%). Thesis: the paper's main arguments presented ...

Scientific papers are often structured chronologically, thus reflecting the progression of the research project. Still, effective papers typically break the chronology in several ways to present ...

Research Papers Need Argument and Evidence Andrew Delbanco teaches American literature at Columbia. His new book, "College: What It Was, Is and Should Be," will be published next spring.

This issue of Bioanalysis focuses on incurred sample reanalysis (ISR), with the aim of providing some examples of ISR failures and the ensuing investigations, to provide a greater shared experience.

Is the research paper still justifiable as a means of grading a college student's performance? Critics of the form say it is outdated because the Internet has made sources so readily accessible ...

For example, between 2013 and 2015 the 100 most published authors in physics and astronomy from American research centres had an average of 311 papers each to their names. The corresponding figure ...