Getting published, demystified
Practical, no-nonsense guides on peer review, revisions, and scientific writing, written by a physician-scientist who reviews for high-impact journals.
How to Publish a Scientific Paper: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
The whole journey from a finished study to an accepted paper, in six steps, with a detailed guide for each. The overview that ties every guide below together.
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How to Choose the Right Statistical Test
Choosing a test is not about memorising a list. Three plain questions about your data, a decision map for continuous, categorical and survival outcomes, and the errors reviewers catch.
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How to Write an Abstract That Gets Your Paper Read
The most-read part of your paper, often written in the last ten minutes. The five moves of a strong abstract, why to lead with the finding, and the mistakes that lose editors.
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Why Your Paper Got Desk-Rejected (and How to Pass the Editor’s First Screen)
Most submitted papers never reach a reviewer. They are returned in minutes. The five gates an editor checks first, and a pre-submission screen to clear every one.
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How to Turn Your PhD Thesis Into Publishable Journal Articles
A thesis and a paper are different animals. How many papers to make, what to cut to reach a third of the length, how to restructure, and the ethics of reusing your own work.
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How to Report Statistics: P-values, Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes
A bare p-value tells the reader almost nothing. Report the size of the effect, its precision, and the test you used, and a reviewer has nothing to flag.
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Ten English Mistakes That Quietly Weaken Scientific Papers: A Reviewer’s List
None is a grammar disaster, and native speakers make them too. But each makes a reviewer work harder and trust less, the ten patterns a reviewer flags most, and how to fix each.
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Your Manuscript Requires English Editing Before Review: What It Means and What to Do
That journal email reads like a rejection, but it almost never is. What the editor is really telling you, the four layers real editing fixes, and the fastest way back into review.
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How to Respond to Reviewer Comments: A Step-by-Step Guide (with Examples)
How to structure a point-by-point response, disagree respectfully, and handle major revisions, without the mistakes that quietly cost papers their acceptance.
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How to Write a Cover Letter to the Editor (That Gets Your Paper Read)
The first thing the editor reads, and where many papers are desk-rejected. What editors look for, the six-part structure that works, and a full template you can adapt.
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How to Report Survival Analysis in an Oncology Paper: A Reviewer’s Guide
Kaplan-Meier curves, hazard ratios, censoring, and the proportional-hazards assumption, explained from the reviewer’s chair, with a pre-submission checklist.
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