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Online Research Training
We do not guarantee any publication. We are not an institute that offers or sells publications. This is the biggest misconception about CiBNP that we offer publications. We train for research methodology and academic writing, then the decision is yours whether you try to publish your project or not.
We teach and train you about topic selection during the first week. We will teach you the skill, art, and the techniques to not just select a topic for this particular project that you will work on, but also for the future. You will be able to select the topics of your future papers as well, with our Robust method of topic selection such as Dr. Tohid’s Topic Selection Approach.
The training is of eight weeks. You should complete your project in seven weeks. Once the article is completed, you can choose to submit to a journal of your choice. Some journals take 30-45 days to publish while some may take 6 months or longer.
We CiBNP do not recommend any journal. It is solely students’ choice and decision where to publish or whether to publish or not. Some students just prefer to learn and don’t try for publication, while some try for publications by submitting to the journals of their choice.
CIBNP does not recommend the students to publish through the CIBNP channels with other journals. All students are provided with a list of over 800 journals to choose from.
CIBNP has this mentioned on its website that ‘We do not offer publications’, this is based on several inquiries that we receive about adding authors in publications in exchange of a fee. We DO NOT offer publications with a monetary exchange. Our process involves, enrolling with CIBNP in order to learn academic writing (with at least two-months of classes) and then producing your own article which will be your intellectual content.
CIBNP does not offer publications to anyone as CIBNP’s primary work is teaching academic and scientific writing. We do not help you place your name in just any publication, however, just like any school, we teach you the skill of academic writing from basics and do our best to make you independent in paper writing. When your project is ready to be published, and you have decided what journal do you want to submit your work to, we are there to answer your questions about the publication process.
Each individual who writes and publishes his/her article is solely responsible for the content they produce and publish in the scientific journals. CIBNP teaches students on how to write academically, and what guidelines should be followed for certain types of articles (For instance, PRISMA checklist should be followed for Systematic Reviews). However, it is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the scientific knowledge they use, the data they collect, the calculations they do are correct to the best of their knowledge. As the scientific content can only be judged by the scientific peer-reviewers. We encourage all our students to publish in peer-reviewed journals only.
No. We DO NOT guarantee publications. We are a tutoring company and can only coach you on writing quality articles. We do not publish your articles for you.
Not at all. We do not engage in unethical activities such as accepting payments in exchange of authorships in publications.
Not at all. The articles that are written by our students are 100% human generated rather than AI generated. The articles, despite the mentors and authors best efforts could have some errors or minor miscalculations. And that is why we welcome the critics to point out errors (if any) that were overlooked by the peer-reviewers of the journals. So, that we can inform the authors and they can make the edits and improvements.
While so many CiBNP students who learn to write scientific articles successfully write great articles, there still are some students who would make mistakes, and unintentional errors.
While we teach them research methodology and writing, and look after their writing style and rules and methodology, we do know that in order to get a fast publication some students may produce low quality papers. Therefore, if you come across papers written by our students and find mistakes and errors, rather than laughing, mocking, or making fun of them or criticizing them, please respectfully point out the mistakes so the author can learn and write an improved version of article in the future.
Our students are young doctors, and your mocking and criticism can destroy their confidence and self-esteem and they may give up and stop writing in the future.
Many of our students don’t produce highest quality of articles but we still appreciate our students and love them unconditionally.
We teach our students honesty, and integrity, and educate them about the importance of truth and honesty. Yet it is also possible that any of our students lies or fabricates data in the paper deliberately. Therefore, we CiBNP hold no responsibility of the content of the article produced. We teach the students the importance of honesty and integrity and if they still don’t listen to us and make intentional mistakes or fabricate the data, and submit to a journal and accidentally the journal reviewers missed the mistakes and journal publishes that article, then the student is himself/herself responsible.
Just like a medical school that trains students to become doctors and if the same student becomes a corrupt doctor or harms the patient deliberately or unintentionally, is the medical school responsible? Similarly, when a building or a bridge collapses due to bad calculations by the civil engineers, should we hold the engineering university responsible? The obvious answer is NO.
Similarly, if our students who learned the skill of writing and make deliberate mistakes or are involved in scientific fraud or fabrication of data, should we be responsible? For this reason we don’t take responsibility of the scientific content and our students sign an agreement and agree that they are fully responsible for the content. CiBNP and its faculty can only teach and guide but are not responsible for the content, fabrication, or deception or lies of any kind, the content is solely Students’ responsibility.
While we teach them research methodology and writing, and look after their writing style and rules and methodology, we do know that in order to get a fast publication some students may produce low quality papers. Therefore, if you come across papers written by our students and find mistakes and errors, rather than laughing, mocking, or making fun of them or criticizing them, please respectfully point out the mistakes so the author can learn and write an improved version of article in the future.
Our students are young doctors, and your mocking and criticism can destroy their confidence and self-esteem and they may give up and stop writing in the future.
Many of our students don’t produce highest quality of articles but we still appreciate our students and love them unconditionally.
We teach our students honesty, and integrity, and educate them about the importance of truth and honesty. Yet it is also possible that any of our students lies or fabricates data in the paper deliberately. Therefore, we CiBNP hold no responsibility of the content of the article produced. We teach the students the importance of honesty and integrity and if they still don’t listen to us and make intentional mistakes or fabricate the data, and submit to a journal and accidentally the journal reviewers missed the mistakes and journal publishes that article, then the student is himself/herself responsible.
Just like a medical school that trains students to become doctors and if the same student becomes a corrupt doctor or harms the patient deliberately or unintentionally, is the medical school responsible? Similarly, when a building or a bridge collapses due to bad calculations by the civil engineers, should we hold the engineering university responsible? The obvious answer is NO.
Similarly, if our students who learned the skill of writing and make deliberate mistakes or are involved in scientific fraud or fabrication of data, should we be responsible? For this reason we don’t take responsibility of the scientific content and our students sign an agreement and agree that they are fully responsible for the content. CiBNP and its faculty can only teach and guide but are not responsible for the content, fabrication, or deception or lies of any kind, the content is solely Students’ responsibility.
Not at all. All articles submitted to any of the CIBNP channels go through a vetting process. Each article goes through Peer-Review and this whole process is independent of CIBNP. All decisions (acceptance, rejection) are taken by the respective journals. CIBNP does not influence journals’ decisions.
Absolutely not. Your article exists only if you exist. We DO NOT have on going projects available for you. We DO NOT have an authorship position available for you. With CIBNP, you get to start writing your own first author project when you learn from CIBNP online classes. We focus on making you a good writer by practicing writing. We DO NOT sell authorship positions.