The Good Clinical Practice (GCP) course is designed to prepare research staff in the conduct of clinical trials with human participants. The 12 modules included in the course are based on ICH GCP Principles and the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for clinical research trials in the U.S. The course is self-paced and takes approximately six hours to complete.

Researchers are required to complete a quiz following each module, except for the Introduction module. To receive a certificate, all quizzes must be completed with at least 80% accuracy (a 100% passing option is available if required by your IRB). Upon successful completion of all quizzes, the user will be given access to the Certificate of Completion. Within the NIDA Clinical Trials Network, certification expires after three years.

Link: National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network - Good Clinical Practice (GCP) 

Determines the minimum number of subjects for adequate study power. This calculator uses a number of different equations to determine the minimum number of subjects that need to be enrolled in a study in order to have sufficient statistical power to detect a treatment effect. Before a study is conducted, investigators need to determine how many subjects should be included. By enrolling too few subjects, a study may not have enough statistical power to detect a difference (type II error). Enrolling too many patients can be unnecessarily costly or time-consuming.

Link: Clin Calc.com 

G*Power is a tool to compute statistical power analyses for many different t tests, F tests, χ2 tests, z tests and some exact tests. G*Power can also be used to compute effect sizes and to display graphically the results of power analyses.

Link: tinyurl.com/yhzeha3t 

Here you'll find a set of statistics calculators that are intuitive and easy to use. Included are a variety of tests of significance, plus correlation, effect size and confidence interval calculators.

Link: Social Science Statistics  

MS Word is not built for research writing, Typeset is:

•  Choose from over 100,000+ verified journal formats

•  Upload your MS-Word files

•  Ensure quality through Plagiarism and Grammar Check

•  Increase publication chances through Editing services

•  Collaborate seamlessly with peers

•  Submit directly to your journal from Typeset

Link: Typeset website  

An important tool to generate fully worded ethics statements to support journal submissions. EthicsGen is a free author tool for writing ethics statements to support submissions to academic journals. It aims to help the author submit correctly worded statements in order to speed submissions through peer review.

Link: Ethicsgen 

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.

Link: Google Scholar 

ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It’s brought to you by the team behind Zotero, the powerful open-source research tool recommended by thousands of universities worldwide, so you can trust it to help you seamlessly add sources and produce perfect bibliographies. 

Link: ZoteroBib 

Whereas most productivity apps tend to be tailored to the corporate landscape, Trello is right at home in the world of academia. It’s a useful and dynamic visual aid that can be accessed by every member of your research team. Running the gamut from content ideas, to research, writing, and publication of papers, every task can be easily moved about the main project screen as needed. Certain tasks can be optimized, staffing changes can be accounted for, and everybody on the team can see where the project is going as a whole, as well as their own individual contributions and expectations.

Link: Trello 

Link: Mendeley 

Research work often involves hours of proofreading and spellchecking to make your research professional. Grammarly, a writing enhancement tool will save you a ton of time and effort doing this dreaded task! Apart from basic spellchecking and corrections, Grammarly includes a grammar checker, a punctuation checker, a vocabulary enhancer, and even a plagiarism checker tool!

Link: Grammarly 

Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint and author services platform. You can share your work early in the form of a preprint, gain feedback from the community, and use our tools and services to improve your paper. You can also learn about breakthroughs in your field and find potential collaborators.

Link: Research Square 

Plagly's free plagiarism checker saves you time while helping you improve writing efficiency and helping students achieve better grades.

Link: Plagly 

Enter title and abstract of your paper to easily find journals that could be best suited for publishing. JournalFinder uses smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match your paper to scientific journals. 

Link: Elsevier Journal Finder 

QuillBot's paraphrasing tool helps millions of people rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article using state-of-the-art Artificial intelligence.

Link: Quillbot 

Citation of articles, books, and websites using different styles (e.g. Harvard, MLA format, APA citation).

Link: Cite this for me 

Summarize any text online in a few seconds.

Link: Esummarizer 

Free online converter for 1000+ formats.

Converter 365 

Synonym and Antonym search engines powered by WordHippo.

Synonym finder 

REDCap is a secure web platform for building and managing online databases and surveys. REDCap's streamlined process for rapidly creating and designing projects offers a vast array of tools that can be tailored to virtually any data collection strategy.  REDCap provides automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to Excel and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R), as well as a built-in project calendar, a scheduling module, ad hoc reporting tools, and advanced features, such as branching logic, file uploading, and calculated fields.

RedCap - KAIMRC 

Google Forms is a survey administration software included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Sites, and Google Keep. Google Forms is only available as a web application.

Google Survey 

This site has been built to create a compendium of all the landmark papers which are shaping the way we manage our critically ill patients. Each paper has been summarised and critiqued using a standard template and ends with a ‘bottom line’ conclusion to allow a quick reminder of the key points. All papers are reviewed and cross checked by the editorial group. We take this seriously and spend time getting it accurate and as helpful for our readers as possible. If you think we have got it wrong, please let us know or use it as a discussion in the comments section. The main value of this site is the discussion of these papers and the contribution of the global FOAM community. 

The Bottom Line 

A list of possibly predatory journals. The kernel for this list was extracted from the archive of Beall’s list at web.archive.org. It will be updated as new information or suggested edits are submitted or found by the maintainers of this site.

Predatory Journals 

Authorship in scientific publications denotes creator of an original idea or a significant intellectual contributor and is a matter of pride as well as responsibility. 

ICMJE Authorship criteria  

Abstrackr is a free online tool to help you upload and organize the results of a literature search for a systematic review. Abstrackr allows you and your team to screen, organize, and manipulate all of your abstracts in one place.

Abstrackr 

Covidence streamlines evidence synthesis with a gold standard process for creating high-quality systematic reviews.

Covidence 

Review Manager (RevMan) is Cochrane's software for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews. RevMan facilitates the preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data. It can perform a meta-analysis of the data entered, and present results graphically. In addition to reviews of studies of the effects of healthcare interventions, you can use RevMan to write reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies, reviews of studies of methodology, and overviews of reviews. This help file focuses primarily on of Cochrane Intervention reviews, with special sections for the features that are specific to the other review types.

RevMan 

Chapter PDFs from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (v6.3) PDF versions of all chapters are available to registered Cochrane contributors below, primarily for training purposes.

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

DAGitty is a browser-based environment for creating, editing and analyzing causal diagrams (also known as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) or causal Bayesian networks). The focus is on using causal diagrams to minimize bias in empirical studies in epidemiology and other disciplines.  

DAGitty 

Writesonic is an AI writing tool that combines the power of AI and human creativity to revolutionize content creation. It offers various products such as ChatSonic, BotSonic, and AudioSonic to help professionals scale content production. The company's mission is to make AI accessible to everyone and empower them to produce high-quality content at a fast pace. Writesonic was founded by Samanyou, who created an AI-powered landing page generator using GPT-3. The company has received funding from top VC firms and was selected by Y-Combinator. The team behind Writesonic includes a diverse group of professionals in various roles. Writesonic is a one-stop AI engagement platform that offers a wide range of AI-powered products. It provides guides and features to help users generate high-quality written content for different purposes and platforms, including article writing, content rephrasing, email writing, SEO meta tags, landing page headlines, and social media post ideas. Writesonic is an AI writer that creates SEO-friendly content for blogs, Facebook ads, Google ads, and Shopify. It offers a paraphrasing tool and various products such as Chatsonic, Botsonic, and Audiosonic. These products allow users to write on-brand articles quickly, generate real-time trending AI conversations, and customize AI chatbots with personalized responses.

Writesonic 

Advanced and Reliable Chat GPT, GPT4 & AI Content Detector

ZeroGPT

The AI Text Classifier is an online free tool that helps detect your text and tells you how much percentage of your text is written by an AI and how much percentage of your text is written by a Human.  

Link: AI Text Classifier