Research Tools and Tips
The Department of Medicine (DOM) Office of Research offers many programs, resources and tools to help faculty and postdoctoral fellows with their research endeavors. If you have any questions about these resources, please contact DOMresearch@emory.edu.
Services and Programs We Offer
- "What's Up" Research Newsletter - weekly newsletter with announcements, funding opportunities, seminars and more
- Proposal Development & Grant Writing Support - with Janet Gross, PhD
- Data Analytics & Biostatistics Core - offers biostatistics, biomedical informatics, study design, analytics support and more
- Consult Program - free one-hour consultations on grants, manuscripts, oral/poster presentations and more
- Communities - connect with other DOM faculty who have similar interests; facilitate personal and professional growth
- Core Facilities - includes DOM cores as well as all Emory cores
- Career Development Award (CDA) Initiative - for faculty and postdoctoral fellows who are pursuing or who have a CDA
- Resource Sharing Listserv - a forum to ask other DOM investigators if you need a reagent, supply, etc.
- K-Club - monthly lunch series sponsored in part by DOM for faculty and fellows who are pursuing or who have a CDA
- Internal Visiting Professorship Program (IVPP) - faculty can spend a day "visiting" another division and establish collaboration
- Blue Sky Groups - bring investigators together to stimulate research interactions and identify potential areas of collaboration
Advice and Guidance
- Hitchhiker's Guide - step-by-step guide for research compliances and approvals at Emory
- Eight Steps to Turn Your Research Idea into a Competitive Grant Proposal
- Getting Your Clinical Trial Going at Emory
- Oral and Poster Presentation resources - templates, printing and logo use information
- Ethical Dilemmas in scientific research and professional integrity - cases and expert opinion
- Team Science - advice and resources for collaboration
- IRB Resources - "Does My Project Need IRB Review?," FAQ, helpful webinars and much more
- ORA Investigator's Guide - Provides tools for each stage of a grant life-cycle
- Scholarship assessment and promotion
- One-page guide to NIH's Rigor and Reproducibility requirements, and Emory's guide to rigor, transparency, and reproducibility
- Who at NIH can answer my question about...?
Databases
- IT resources for researchers (e.g., REDCap) - list of IT resources available to researchers at Emory
- Research Antibodies from the DHSB - a national resource created by NIH to bank and distribute hybridomas & the monoclonal antibodies they produce.
- Common Equipment, Resources, and Specialized Expertise within the Department of Medicine
- Biorepositories database- a campus-wide list of bio repositories and genotypic/phenotypic data available
Grant Writing Support
- Instructions for the new NIH Biosketch (in effect May 25, 2015); see also podcasts and using SciENcv to generate the new format
- Proposal Development & Grant Writing Support - with Janet Gross, PhD
- Consult Program - free one-hour consultations on grants, manuscripts, oral/poster presentations and more
- Research Administration Services (RAS) - pre- and post-award grants and contracts administration in the Department of Medicine
- NIH Rock Talk - very helpful extramural news & tips from NIH
- Center for Comprehensive Informatics - generates collaborative, multidisciplinary projects between software system researchers and scientific investigators
- Grant templates & examples
- Which grant is appropriate for you?
- Grant writing tips
- Grant editors
- Find currently funded projects through NIH RePORTER
- Helpful links
Manuscript Development
- How to properly cite the Department of Medicine
- Emory open access publishing funding
- Successful Scientific Writing course - open to all faculty
- Manuscript editors
- Types of publications- what constitutes scholarship?
- Deciding first authorship
- Conducting a literature review
- Responding to reviewers
- Responding to Reviewers (PDF) - The San Francisco Edit
- Top 10 Tips for Responding to Reviewer and Editor Comments - Clinical Chemistry 2011:57;551-554
- Writing and publishing papers
- How to choose the right journal
- Jane compares your manuscript to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles
- Jeanette Guarner's 7 tips to ensure manuscript publishing success
- How to write a case report
- 10 Principles for Increasing the Likelihood of Manuscript Publication video - login with your Emory ID
- How to create high quality images to meet journal publication guidelines
- Authorship guidelines
- Authorship Links
- ICMJE: a group of medical journal editors that periodically issues writing and reporting standards for medical journal publications; these standards are widely followed in the medical literature.
- Consort Statement: an evidence-based, minimum set of recommendations for reporting randomized controlled trials. It offers a standard way for authors to prepare reports of trial findings, facilitating their complete and transparent reporting, and aiding their critical appraisal and interpretation.
- STROBE: STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology. Very useful link for strengthening the quality of observational papers (=most clinical research papers); even when it is not possible to conform to all the proposed standards formally, it helps to go through all the standards and see how the paper can be improved.
- Equator Network: a comprehensive list of current guidelines for most types of papers in biomedical research.
- Journal Citation Reports by Thomson-Reuters; login with your Emory ID. Excellent resource for target journal selection. Look for impact factors in your field of interest and "gauge" where your paper fits - aim for the best (but reasonable) impact factor based on the impact of your paper.
Biostatistical Support
- Data Analytics and Biostatistics Core -Provides high-quality biostatistics and IT Data management service
- Biostatistical Support and Basic Courses - find support for junior faculty or senior researchers, or learn the basics for yourself through non-degree programs
Other Scientific Communications Resources
- How to find your h-index (PDF) - commonly used to measure both the productivity and citation impact of a researcher's body of work (if your h-index is 20, that means you have 20 publications that have been cited at least 20 times in the literature)
- Consult Program - free one-hour consultations on grants, manuscripts, oral/poster presentations and more
- Quality Improvement scholarship resources
- Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund through CFDE
- Workshops offered through WHSC Library on a variety of topics including EndNote and PubMed
- Emory WHSC Library Resources - how to find a journal article, workshops, training, and other resources for DOM faculty
- Best practices in peer reviewing for scientific journals - developed by Editor-in-Cheif of APS Journals (scroll to bottom of page)
