How to peer review manuscripts

If you regularly write manuscripts and submit these to peer-reviewed journals, peer reviewing manuscripts of other researchers is, in my opinion, a moral obligation. Additionally, a good peer review should effectively screen out flawed science. So, peer reviews are...

Flowchart of your study

For many types of studies, such as interventional studies, and also for systematic reviews, usually a flowchart (or ‘flow diagram’) is needed for publication. There are various ways to generate one. You can adapt a standard example, create one in PowerPoint, or use a...

How to write an abstract

When you are writing a manuscript, you also need an abstract that informs future readers what the article is about before they (pay to) download it. Also, when you want to present your results at a conference, you need an abstract to show what your research is about...