Guidelines for the preparation of structured reports for laboratory studies, clinical studies, epidemiological studies, and observations could be useful. A structured report should prompt reviewers to acknowledge familiarity or otherwise with method, background papers, and so on. New reviewers could draw up their own system. Reports should be helpful and courteous so that whether or not the pap...

4 points) Summarizes report in one paragraph. Write this section last. Boil down your intro, methods, results, and discussion sections to a sentence or two each and you’ll have a great abstract. (1 pt)-succinctly describes why research was conducted in the first place (1 pt)-succinctly describes methods (relative to all the possible methods in ecology did you do a field experiment? Did you rean...

dear editor in recent years, the number of scientific research papers of iranian scientists has substantially grown in national and international journals that indicates particular attitude of iranian scientific community to the development of knowledge in different fields. moreover, improvement of quality of scientific papers is necessary. for this purpose, criticism of published studies is a ...

The purpose of the present paper was to pursue the social factors involving in scientific papers and also examine the impact of tendency of PhD candidates to participate in research projects, membership and activity of PhD candidate at conferences, the willingness in scientific collaboration of professors and researchers. The sample size consisted of 92 PhD candidates at Islamic Azad University...

Background: Iran has achieved rapid scientific growth in the past two decades. Considerable growth in scientific publications by Iranian dermatologists matches the pace of Iran’s scientific publications in the previous decade. In this study, we aim to identify the current trends in Iranian dermatology publications and authorship over the past decade.Methods: We compared papers indexed in the ME...

background: the quantitative analysis of scientific output, scientific policy making, scientific relationships of researchers, and drawing historiographic outlines are all parts of scientometric discipline. this paper was designed for scientometric analysis of 20 top journals in the field of genetics and heredity in 2000-2008 and to map the scientific structure of their papers. methods: this re...

plagiarism refers to “adopting someone else’s words, work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. it is potentially considered as the most prevalent form of scientific dishonesty discovered in research papers. the present review aims to provide a thorough account of plagiarism to build awareness about all dimensions of plagiarism.the key words “plagiarism”, “types”, “detection” and “conseq...