Author Archives: amreenscience

Hi all, I am writing this post on tips to maintain productivity during the quarantine period. Many people are staying alone, and away from their families, so it is likely that they feel anxious, worried, distracted, or even bored staying at home. Social media makes it challenging to stay focused and also leads to lossContinue reading “How to stay productive and calm during the quarantine in academia – 10 tips”

Welcome back to scienceIQ! Qualitative research explores the quality of the situation/phenomenon. It has nothing to do with p-values or mean differences. The purpose of qualitative research is to understand the phenomenon and NOT to generalize the findings.  Qualitative research is not so popular in the health sciences. It originated and developed from social sciences.Continue reading “Qualitative data analysis – step by step guide”

Hi all, welcome back to scienceIQ. Today we will discuss an interesting and important topic on publishing in predatory journals/conferences. The term ‘predatory’ literally means exploiting someone for their benefit.  It has a similar meaning when we talk about predatory journals. What is a predatory journal – Predatory journals are money-making journals that compromise scienceContinue reading “HOW TO IDENTIFY PREDATORY JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES”

Hi all, welcome back to scienceIQ! I am writing a post after a long time, but I will keep posting as and when possible. So, stay tuned. Today we will discuss Literature Review. Yes, it is the most disliked process in conducting research, and it is the first challenge that we all have to faceContinue reading “Literature Review – a guide for beginners”

Welcome to the post on qualitative research. Qualitative research is relatively new in the field of health sciences, so, I thought that it would be good to discuss a few characteristics of qualitative researchers. Qualitative research differs from quantitative, and so do the qualities of the researchers. Here are a few qualities which a qualitativeContinue reading “Qualities of a Qualitative Researcher”

Hi, welcome back to the systematic review posts. In the last blog post, we discussed the risk of bias assessment of included studies in a review (https://scienceiq.blog/2019/04/18/how-to-do-risk-of-bias-assessment-in-a-systematic-review/). Today, we will move one step further and learn how to do the meta-analysis of the included studies. This post is a step by step tutorial so youContinue reading “How to do Meta-analysis in a Systematic Review – Do it yourself!”

Hello everyone, this post is different from my previous posts on systematic reviews. In this post, I will share those skills that helped me grow as a researcher, and those that I learned/still learning during my PhD. These are a few skills that you should try to acquire while carrying out your research. Hopefully, itContinue reading “10 Tips to Grow as a Researcher – for Beginner Doctoral Students and Aspirants”

Hi, welcome back! Hope your reviews are progressing well. If not, then don’t worry and follow each step at a time. Focusing on one step is easier than trying to understand the entire process. In the last post, we discussed data screening and extraction (https://scienceiq.blog/2019/03/23/how-to-screen-articles-and-extract-data-for-a-systematic-review/). Today, we will move on to one of the mostContinue reading “How to assess Risk of Bias in a Systematic Review?”

Welcome back! It’s been a long time since I wrote the posts on systematic reviews. For those who are reading this blog for the first time, I have written previous posts on step by step methods to conduct a systematic review. The last post was on developing the search strategy and running the search inContinue reading “How to Screen Articles and Extract Data for A Systematic Review”

Hello all, welcome back after a long break. Hope you have registered your review in PROSPERO by now. We are now moving to the crucial yet less discussed step of a systematic review, which is developing the search terms. Search terms are the engine of a systematic review. If it is in the right direction,Continue reading “HOW TO DEVELOP THE SEARCH STRATEGY FOR A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW”