Physics: Research Issues

A literature review is a scholarly paper, which includes the current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Find links to some literature review tutorials:

• What is a literature review
• Literature Review
• Writing a literature review
• Systematic Literature Review

Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Find below links to  UG's plagiarism policy and guidelines for using Turnitin Software.

• UG plagiarism policy
• Guidelines for Using the Turnitin Software

​Other relevant documents:

• Rule of thumb for writing research articles
• Quantitative and qualitative research questions and hypotheses
• Ten Tips for Authors of Scientific Articles

A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic. A review article surveys and summarizes previously published studies, rather than reporting new facts or analysis.

Research methods databases/articles help you to find examples of different research methods to facilitate the design of your own research.

List of some doctoral and Masters theses, presented to the Physics Department, which can be accessed, full-text, from the UG Institutional Repository

Faculty Research papers available in the UG Institutional Repository, either in full text or abstract only.

Some Research activities in the Physics Department, UG.

• Condensed Matter Theory and Experiment (Nanophysics;
• Environmental Physics - Pollution Monitoring / Modeling, Atmospheric Physics, Remote Sensing, Physical Oceanography
• Computational Plasma Physics
• Optics
• Geophysics (in collaboration with the Department of Earth Science)
• Energy - Energy Assessment, Applications and commercial viability of renewable energy systems including Photovoltaic electricity generation in Ghana
• Nuclear Physics - Applications of nuclear analytical techniques