Research Areas
Our senior panel leads twelve core disciplines directly. Across the wider Inkspire team, that coverage extends across the fields grouped below and others closely related to them.
Sciences & Healthcare
- Medicine & Clinical Research
- Public Health
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
- Dentistry
- Biology & Life Sciences
- Environmental Science
Business & Management
- Business Administration
- Finance
- Marketing
- Human Resource Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Supply Chain & Operations
Humanities & Social Sciences
- Literature & Comparative Literature
- History
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Philosophy
- Anthropology
- Linguistics
Sciences & Engineering
- Computer Science
- Data Science & Statistics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
Education
- Education Policy
- Curriculum & Instruction
- Higher Education Leadership
- Special Education
- Educational Technology
Law & International Relations
- International Law
- Human Rights
- Political Science
- Public Policy
- International Relations
Creative Arts & Writing
- Creative Writing
- Fine Arts
- Media & Communication
- Film Studies
Do not see your exact field listed? Ask at intake. Interdisciplinary and cross field research is common, and mentor assignment is based on the closest genuine overlap with your project, not a rigid category match.
Method and integrity references our mentors work from.
Not domain papers, which change by project, but the standing standards behind good reporting, citation, and publication ethics across the disciplines above. Free to read, and worth bookmarking before your first draft.
PRISMA 2020 Statement
The current international standard for reporting systematic reviews and meta analyses, with a 27 item checklist and flow diagram template used across health, social science, and engineering reviews.
Read the source →ICMJE Recommendations
The reference standard for authorship, conflict of interest, and manuscript preparation used by medical and health science journals worldwide, maintained by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Read the source →COPE Core Practices
The publication ethics standards that most academic journals hold authors to, covering authorship disputes, redundant publication, data integrity, and how allegations of misconduct are handled.
Read the source →EQUATOR Network Reporting Guidelines
A library of over 250 study design specific reporting guidelines, including CONSORT for trials and STROBE for observational studies, for writing a methods section reviewers will not send back.
Read the source →How To Write A First Class Paper
A Nature Careers feature drawing on senior editors and prolific authors for concrete habits behind papers that clear peer review efficiently rather than after several rounds of revision.
Read the source →Purdue OWL: Writing A Literature Review
A clear, practical breakdown of what separates a literature review from an annotated bibliography, and how to organise sources by argument rather than by author or date.
Read the source →Purdue OWL: APA Style Guide
The full APA seventh edition formatting and citation reference, covering the reference list, in text citation, and manuscript structure rules most social science and education programmes require.
Read the source →APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS)
Section by section reporting standards for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods manuscripts in psychology and the social sciences, used by many journals as their own submission checklist.
Read the source →Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice
The American Statistical Association’s standards for honest, transparent statistical analysis, useful for anyone defending a methods or results chapter in front of an examiner.
Read the source →IEEE Fundamental Publishing Guidelines
The authorship, originality, and peer review principles that IEEE journals hold engineering and computer science authors to, foundational reading before a first conference or journal submission.
Read the source →TOP Guidelines
The Transparency and Openness Promotion framework behind pre registration, open data, and open materials policies now required by a growing number of journals and funders.
Read the source →Introduction To The Responsible Conduct Of Research
A federal level primer on research integrity, covering data management, mentorship, collaboration, and misconduct, from the US government body that investigates research misconduct allegations.
Read the source →Research, as it publishes.
Pulled directly from arXiv and SSRN every six hours, sorted into Inkspire's own research areas by AI, never rewritten. Source, always one click away.
