[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":434},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal":3,"answers-cluster-publishing":110,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal":155},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"cluster":72,"description":73,"extension":74,"faq":75,"heading":78,"intro":66,"kind":79,"meta":80,"navigation":81,"order":82,"outbound":83,"path":90,"primaryQuery":91,"product":92,"related":93,"seo":96,"sources":97,"stem":108,"updated":101,"__hash__":109},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal.md","How to Choose the Right Journal for Your Paper","Start from your reference list. The journals you cite most are the conversation your paper joins, and editors there recognize the problem you are working on. Then filter by scope fit, typical article type, turnaround time, and access requirements, in that order.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":65},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,29,32,37,40,43,46,49,53,56,59,62],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The reference-list method works because it captures fit better than any list of criteria. If eight of the papers your argument builds on appeared in two journals, those journals are where your contribution is legible. Editors and reviewers there already accept the premises you did not have space to justify.",[11,15,16],{},"Fit is the strongest predictor of a favorable outcome, and misfit is the most common cause of desk rejection. A good paper sent to a journal whose readers do not care about the question gets returned in a week, and the week is not the cost. The cost is the three months before you try again somewhere appropriate.",[11,18,19],{},"Decide before you write the full draft, because the target readership sets the paper's language, its diagram format, how much methodological detail you include, and what you treat as novel (Schafstall et al., 2024, p. 6). Bourne gives the same reason for deciding early, that the venue fixes the paper's form, its level of detail, and the novelty it has to assume (Bourne, 2005, p. 342). Schafstall and colleagues show the same palaeolimnological study framed three ways, for limnologists, for palaeoclimatologists, or for a broad Earth-system audience, and they list distinct venue types that follow from that choice: an interdisciplinary journal such as PNAS, a geographically focused one such as Arctic or Austral Ecology, a study-system journal such as Journal of Limnology, or a process journal such as Nature Climate Change (Schafstall et al., 2024, p. 6). For a first paper aimed wider than your subfield, they advise picking a journal that has already published work in your specific area.",[11,21,22],{},"Turnaround matters more than people admit, especially for doctoral candidates on a timeline. Many journals publish median times from submission to first decision, and where they do not, colleagues who have submitted recently will tell you. A journal with a nine-month first decision is a different proposition from one with six weeks.",[11,24,25],{},"Check the practical constraints before you commit: article type and word limit, whether they publish your kind of study, open access requirements from your funder, and whether your institution has an agreement covering the fee.",[11,27,28],{},"A legitimate journal discloses its article-processing charge before you submit, and the amount alone tells you nothing about legitimacy (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 2). Charges run from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, and some entirely reputable journals charge US$5,000 or more, while the Directory of Open Access Journals lists thousands of open-access journals that charge authors nothing (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 2). Waivers exist for researchers in low- and middle-income countries and for demonstrated financial need. Author fees do not define predatory publishing (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 1). What defines it is deceptive practice and the absence of quality assurance.",[11,30,31],{},"So check the claims a journal makes about itself. Confirm that the named editors and board members actually participate and that their expertise matches the stated scope, and see whether the journal explains how reviewers assess innovation, quality, and reproducibility (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 3). Verify indexing in MEDLINE, Engineering Village, Redalyc, Web of Science, or the relevant current title list rather than trusting the journal's own page. Leonard and colleagues qualify this in both directions: presence in a reputable database supports credibility but does not establish it, since suspect journals have appeared in reputable indexes, and absence is not proof of misconduct, but a false indexing claim is decisive (Leonard et al., 2021, p. 3).",[33,34,36],"h2",{"id":35},"does-impact-factor-matter-at-my-career-stage","Does impact factor matter at my career stage?",[11,38,39],{},"Less than the fit does, and more than some people will tell you. Hiring and funding panels in many fields still read venue as a proxy. What matters more early on is publishing at all, in a journal your field reads, rather than waiting two years for a rejection from a famous one.",[11,41,42],{},"Field norms differ enormously and generic advice is unreliable here. Ask two or three people who have recently been on hiring panels in your discipline what they actually look at. The answers are usually more specific and more reassuring than the folklore.",[11,44,45],{},"The published advice pulls in two directions here, and both halves are worth holding. Bourne argues for one strong paper in a quality journal over several in lesser ones, and notes that employers and tenure committees increasingly consult Google Scholar, Web of Science, and impact factors (Bourne, 2005, p. 342). Leonard and colleagues counter that journals can display fraudulent impact factors, and that legitimacy rests on ethical editorial process rather than prestige, so a single anonymous or commercial predatory-journal list is not a reliable filter either, since such lists go out of date and carry their own biases (Leonard et al., 2021, pp. 3-4). Treat metrics as the last step, after fit and verification.",[11,47,48],{},"A reasonable strategy for a first paper is to aim one level above where you comfortably expect to land, with a fallback chosen in advance so a rejection costs days rather than weeks of deliberation.",[33,50,52],{"id":51},"how-do-i-read-a-journals-scope-statement-properly","How do I read a journal's scope statement properly?",[11,54,55],{},"Read the last five issues instead. Scope statements are written broadly to attract submissions, and the actual scope is what the editors have accepted recently. If nothing in five issues resembles your paper in topic, method, or length, the fit is worse than the statement suggests.",[11,57,58],{},"Look at the methods as well as the topics. A journal that publishes only quantitative work will not know what to do with your interview study, whatever the scope statement says about welcoming diverse approaches.",[11,60,61],{},"A short presubmission enquiry to the editor is legitimate and underused. Two paragraphs describing the paper and asking whether it falls within scope gets an answer in days and saves months when the answer is no.",[11,63,64],{},"Bourne makes the same point as Rule 9, that a presubmission inquiry tests the journal's interest before the paper is finished (Bourne, 2005, p. 342). Schafstall and colleagues add two checks alongside it: write to the chief editor when the fit is genuinely unclear, and ask someone who belongs to the target readership to read the draft and say whether it contains the information they would expect to find (Schafstall et al., 2024, p. 6). The second check catches the failure that a scope statement never will, a paper that is on topic but written for the wrong readers.",{"title":66,"searchDepth":67,"depth":67,"links":68},"",4,[69,71],{"id":35,"depth":70,"text":36},2,{"id":51,"depth":70,"text":52},"publishing","How to choose a journal that will actually consider your paper, whether impact factor matters at your career stage, and how to read a scope statement properly.","md",[76,77],{"q":36,"a":39},{"q":52,"a":55},"How do I choose a journal for my paper?","answer",{},true,1,[84,87],{"label":85,"to":86},"Outlining a paper from a map","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Foutlining-a-paper",{"label":88,"to":89},"The literature review workflow","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Fliterature-review","\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","how to choose a journal for my paper",null,[94,95],"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph",{"title":5,"description":73},[98,102,105],{"label":99,"url":100,"checked":101},"Bourne, Ten simple rules for getting published, PLoS Computational Biology (2005)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.0010057","2026-08-06",{"label":103,"url":104,"checked":101},"Schafstall et al., Ten simple rules to bridge ecology and palaeoecology by publishing outside palaeoecological journals, PLoS Computational Biology (2024)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1012487",{"label":106,"url":107,"checked":101},"Leonard et al., Ten simple rules for avoiding predatory publishing scams, PLoS Computational Biology (2021)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1009377","answers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","E-miTOuqVeoQbUld6mgVX7aGWenBfofJhgPwgMLKzmQ",[111,112,116,121,125,130,135,140,145,150],{"path":90,"heading":78,"description":73,"order":82},{"path":113,"heading":114,"description":115,"order":70},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","How do I tell if a journal is predatory?","The checks that reliably identify a predatory journal, which warning signs no longer work on their own, and what to do if you have already submitted to one.",{"path":117,"heading":118,"description":119,"order":120},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?","How to write a response to reviewers that gets a paper accepted, what to do when a reviewer is wrong, and how to structure the response letter itself.",3,{"path":122,"heading":123,"description":124,"order":67},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?","The real reasons editors reject papers without review, whether it is worth asking for reconsideration, and how to choose where to send the paper next.",{"path":126,"heading":127,"description":128,"order":129},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?","What actually happens to a manuscript after submission, how long peer review typically takes and why, and what the standard decision terms mean in practice.",5,{"path":131,"heading":132,"description":133,"order":134},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?","What a journal submission cover letter should contain, what the editor is actually reading it for, and whether to suggest or exclude specific reviewers.",6,{"path":136,"heading":137,"description":138,"order":139},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint","Should I post my paper as a preprint?","Whether to post your paper as a preprint before submission, whether journals will still accept it afterwards, and whether preprints count as publications.",7,{"path":141,"heading":142,"description":143,"order":144},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?","How to cite a preprint correctly, when citing unreviewed work is appropriate in a thesis or paper, and what to do when the preprint is later published.",8,{"path":146,"heading":147,"description":148,"order":149},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?","Whether open access publishing always costs money, what the green, gold, and diamond routes mean in practice, and what your options are with no funding.",9,{"path":151,"heading":152,"description":153,"order":154},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?","How authorship order is determined in different fields, what counts as enough contribution to be an author, and what to do when there is a dispute.",10,[156,159,162,165,168,170,173,176,179,181,184,187,190,193,196,199,202,205,208,211,214,217,220,223,226,229,232,235,238,241,244,247,250,253,256,259,262,265,268,271,274,277,280,283,286,289,292,295,298,301,304,307,310,313,316,319,322,323,324,325,326,327,328,329,330,331,332,335,338,341,344,347,350,353,356,359,362,365,368,371,374,377,380,383,386,389,392,395,398,401,404,407,410,413,416,419,422,425,428,431],{"path":157,"heading":158},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?",{"path":160,"heading":161},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?",{"path":163,"heading":164},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?",{"path":166,"heading":167},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis","How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?",{"path":95,"heading":169},"Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?",{"path":171,"heading":172},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?",{"path":174,"heading":175},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?",{"path":177,"heading":178},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-thesis-introduction","How do I write a thesis introduction?",{"path":94,"heading":180},"How do I write an abstract for a research paper?",{"path":182,"heading":183},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?",{"path":185,"heading":186},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":188,"heading":189},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":191,"heading":192},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":194,"heading":195},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":197,"heading":198},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":200,"heading":201},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":203,"heading":204},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":206,"heading":207},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":209,"heading":210},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":212,"heading":213},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":215,"heading":216},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":218,"heading":219},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-ai-answers-better-on-your-own-pdfs","Why does an AI answer better when it reads my own PDFs?",{"path":221,"heading":222},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":224,"heading":225},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":227,"heading":228},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":230,"heading":231},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":233,"heading":234},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":236,"heading":237},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":239,"heading":240},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":242,"heading":243},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":245,"heading":246},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fjournal-page-number-or-pdf-page-number","Do I use the journal page number or the PDF page number in a citation?",{"path":248,"heading":249},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":251,"heading":252},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":254,"heading":255},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":257,"heading":258},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":260,"heading":261},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":263,"heading":264},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":266,"heading":267},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":269,"heading":270},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":272,"heading":273},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":275,"heading":276},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":278,"heading":279},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Freview-that-leads-to-your-question","How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":281,"heading":282},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":284,"heading":285},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":287,"heading":288},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":290,"heading":291},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":293,"heading":294},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":296,"heading":297},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva","How do I defend my methodology in a viva?",{"path":299,"heading":300},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?",{"path":302,"heading":303},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?",{"path":305,"heading":306},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?",{"path":308,"heading":309},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?",{"path":311,"heading":312},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?",{"path":314,"heading":315},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","What happens if you fail a PhD viva?",{"path":317,"heading":318},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?",{"path":320,"heading":321},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?",{"path":90,"heading":78},{"path":146,"heading":147},{"path":151,"heading":152},{"path":126,"heading":127},{"path":141,"heading":142},{"path":131,"heading":132},{"path":117,"heading":118},{"path":136,"heading":137},{"path":113,"heading":114},{"path":122,"heading":123},{"path":333,"heading":334},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ffind-the-paper-you-half-remember","How do I find a paper when I only remember the argument it made?",{"path":336,"heading":337},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":339,"heading":340},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhow-many-papers-can-you-read-a-day","How many papers can a PhD student realistically read in a day?",{"path":342,"heading":343},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":345,"heading":346},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":348,"heading":349},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnote-system-takes-too-long","What do I do when my note-taking system takes longer than reading the papers?",{"path":351,"heading":352},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":354,"heading":355},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":357,"heading":358},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":360,"heading":361},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":363,"heading":364},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":366,"heading":367},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":369,"heading":370},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":372,"heading":373},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":375,"heading":376},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":378,"heading":379},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":381,"heading":382},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":384,"heading":385},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?",{"path":387,"heading":388},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?",{"path":390,"heading":391},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original","How do I know if my research gap is original?",{"path":393,"heading":394},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fnarrow-a-broad-research-question","How do I narrow down a research question that is too broad?",{"path":396,"heading":397},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","Can a research question change during a PhD?",{"path":399,"heading":400},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-or-hypothesis","What is the difference between a research question and a hypothesis?",{"path":402,"heading":403},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fturn-a-topic-into-a-research-question","How do I turn a research topic into a research question?",{"path":405,"heading":406},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwhat-makes-a-good-research-question","What makes a good research question in a PhD thesis?",{"path":408,"heading":409},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","How do I write a research gap statement?",{"path":411,"heading":412},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fchoose-a-statistical-test","How do I choose which statistical test to use?",{"path":414,"heading":415},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-many-interviews-is-enough","How many interviews are enough for a qualitative study?",{"path":417,"heading":418},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-to-do-thematic-analysis","How do I do thematic analysis step by step?",{"path":420,"heading":421},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Finductive-or-deductive-coding","What is the difference between inductive and deductive thematic analysis?",{"path":423,"heading":424},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fintegrate-mixed-methods-data","How do I integrate qualitative and quantitative data in a mixed methods study?",{"path":426,"heading":427},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Frigour-in-qualitative-research","How do I show rigour in qualitative research?",{"path":429,"heading":430},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwhat-a-p-value-means","What does a p value actually mean?",{"path":432,"heading":433},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwork-out-your-sample-size","How do I calculate the sample size for a study?",1786014769434]