As a follow-up to our class, “Using Critical Appraisal to Assess the Rigor of the Prior Research,” this session will be a discussion-based journal club, critically appraising a journal article in order to determine its validity, relevance, and rigor. Those who have attended “Using Critical Appraisal to Assess the Rigor of the Prior Research” are encouraged to attend this session. (subject matter: data acquisition and analysis)
When applying for grants, have you ever wondered how best to meet the NIH requirement to assess the rigor of the prior research in your field? Critical appraisal can help readers determine whether a study's results are valid, what the results are, and whether they are relevant to you. This class will cover the basics of critically appraising studies, including study design, methods, bias, and confounding. (subject matter: data acquisition and analysis)
Join us also for the follow-up session entitled, “Critical Appraisal Journal Club Session”. You must register for each session separately.
This class will explain how to evaluate the quality of a journal to ensure that it's a suitable venue for your work. Learn about industry initiatives, research misconduct policies, peer review, database inclusion criteria, predatory journals, and other issues related to scholarly publishing. Anyone is welcome to attend, however, having previous or basic publishing knowledge is helpful.
This class will be useful for researchers who are at the beginning stage of project development, researchers who are working on a grant application, and students who are developing thesis, Master’s essay, or dissertation proposals.
iThenticate is a plagiarism detection software supported by the University of Pittsburgh. It allows researchers to easily upload and scan manuscripts and other professional works for instances of plagiarism. Use of iThenticate is highly encouraged by the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to submission of all grant proposals.
Data visualizations can be an effective way to tell your research impact story and add value to a wide variety of reports. Whether it’s to illustrate author collaborations, analyze article citation patterns, or explore research trends through text mining, this class will introduce you to techniques for creating your own visualizations with VOSviewer. Participants are encouraged to follow along with the in-class exercises.
A basic knowledge of research metrics prior to the class is helpful, but not required. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to attend.
iThenticate is a plagiarism detection software supported by the University of Pittsburgh. It allows researchers to easily upload and scan manuscripts and other professional works for instances of plagiarism. Use of iThenticate is highly encouraged by the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to submission of all grant proposals.
In this session, we’ll discuss how making informed publishing decisions and managing your online researcher identity are effective ways to increase the visibility of your research. Different types of open access publishing models, including free ways to share your work, will be discussed. We’ll then take a deeper dive into how an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) helps distinguish yourself from other researchers, keeps your scholarly record up to date, and automates other researcher profile systems to showcase your impact. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to attend.
This introductory class will explain how publishing works, the common publishing models (including subscription and open access journals), copyright policies, journal matching tools, and how to use journal metrics to find impactful publications in your field.
Keeping track of everything in a project that you should plan for, and write about, is complicated. But what if it didn't have to be? There are tools, i.e. health research reporting guidelines, that are easily and freely accessible that will help you work more efficiently, guide your project development (i.e. your protocol, grant submission, and IRB submission), and improve the transparency of your writing. These tools — health research reporting guidelines — have been around since the mid-1990's but are incredibly underutilized.