by Brian Waters | Oct 13, 2021 | Professional Development, Research skills
If you need to make a biographical sketch (biosketch) for a NIH grant application or fellowship application, this video tutorial will show you an easy way to do it using the NLM NCBI My Bibliography and SciENcv. Using these tools will allow you to customize your NIH...
by Brian Waters | Oct 6, 2021 | Professional Development, Research skills
A scientific poster is often the first type of presentation a budding scientist will give. The video below walks through the steps required to make a poster in PowerPoint. Font sizes can vary according to poster size. My recommendations are: Title: 60-90 pt Authors: a...
by Brian Waters | Sep 29, 2021 | Professional Development, Research skills
Presenting in a poster session is a great opportunity to promote your research and expand its impact. But only if you can get people to stop and look at the poster. In this video I simulate my thought process when I’m attending a poster session and deciding...
by Brian Waters | Sep 28, 2021 | Publishing
In a previous post I took a look at predatory journals and another post, I compared some of the more expensive Open Access journals to predatory journals. In this post, I will re-visit that idea and ask the question: Can mainstream, elite journals be considered...
by Brian Waters | Sep 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you are reading this post, you understand that publishing your scientific research is important for your career, for your field, and for society in general. Publishing your work can be what stands between you and finishing your Masters or PhD, getting a postdoc,...
by Brian Waters | Sep 17, 2021 | Publishing, Writing Tips
There are some factors that you need to be aware of when you are choosing a target journal to submit your research for publication, and one of them is Open Access. In this post we will compare the traditional publishing model to the Open Access publishing model....
by Brian Waters | Sep 15, 2021 | Publishing, Writing Tips
In a previous post, we discussed the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The Journal Impact Factor might be a key consideration you have when it comes time to decide where to publish your research. But, I would like to ask the question, should it be? I’m going to give...
by Brian Waters | Sep 3, 2021 | Publishing, Writing Tips
In a previous post we talked about the Journal Impact Factor, how it’s calculated, and how you should not use the journal impact factor alone. Let’s look at some other metrics and see how they compare to the journal impact factor. Here we have a list of...
by Brian Waters | Aug 31, 2021 | Publishing, Writing Tips
Have you heard of the h-index? In a previous post we talked about the Journal Impact Factor, and how it is sometimes misused to evaluate individual researchers based on the journals that they publish their papers in. A better way to measure the impact of individual...
by Brian Waters | Aug 27, 2021 | Process, Publishing, Writing Tips
Journal Impact Factor is a term you have probably heard before, maybe in a situation like this: A colleague comes to you and says “Hey, I’ve got this new paper to read that was published in a really good journal; it has a high impact factor” or maybe the...