Academic Research Management

Manage Research Projects
From Idea to Publication

A centralized platform for academic institutions to coordinate research groups, track project lifecycles, manage collaborators, and monitor progress — all in one place.

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User Roles
8+
Project Stages
100%
Open Source
PHP
Powered
Access Control

Built for Every Stakeholder

Three distinct roles with tailored dashboards and permission sets.

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Administrator

Full system oversight — manage users, groups, conferences, audit logs, and generate institution-wide reports.

User Management Audit Logs DB Backup Export Reports
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Group Head

Leads a research group — approves member applications, oversees group projects, and monitors team progress.

Member Approval Group Projects Team Analytics
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Researcher

Creates and manages research projects, collaborates with peers, uploads files, and tracks submission milestones.

Create Projects Collaborate File Uploads
Platform Features

Everything You Need

A complete toolkit for end-to-end research project management.

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Project Management

Create, edit, and track research projects with titles, descriptions, domains, tags, and milestone dates. Assign to groups and manage ownership.

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Status Lifecycle

Projects flow through defined stages: Draft → Work In Progress → Submitted to Conference/Journal → Accepted/Rejected → Published. Each transition is logged.

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Collaboration

Add multiple collaborators to any project. Collaborators share access to project files, status updates, and comment threads.

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Research Groups

Organize users into research groups with a designated head. Researchers can apply to join groups; heads approve or reject membership.

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Conference Tracker

Maintain a curated list of active conferences with deadlines, Scopus indexing, publisher, tracks, and CFP document uploads. Expired entries are hidden automatically.

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Real-time Notifications

In-app notifications for project updates, collaboration invites, status changes, group membership decisions, and system events. Polled automatically.

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File Management

Upload project files and status-change attachments with type validation and size limits. Bulk delete, paginated file list, and per-status tracking.

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Dashboards & Analytics

Role-specific dashboards with Chart.js visualizations — project status distribution, researcher productivity, group performance, and active vs. inactive ratios.

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Export Reports

Generate institution-wide PDF reports covering projects, groups, users, and status breakdowns — downloadable in one click by administrators.

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Security & Audit Logs

CSRF protection on all forms, secure session management, Content Security Policy headers, and a full audit trail of every significant user action.

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Database Backup

Admins can generate and download a full SQL dump of the database directly from the admin panel — no server access required.

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User Profiles & Onboarding

Guided onboarding wizard for new users, editable profiles with avatar uploads, account status management, and self-service account deletion requests.

How It Works

Project Lifecycle at a Glance

From account creation to published research.

1

Register & Onboard

New users register, complete the guided onboarding wizard, set their profile, and join or request membership to a research group.

2

Create a Project

Researchers create a project with a title, domain, description, tags, and optional initial file uploads. The project starts in Draft status.

3

Collaborate & Upload

Invite collaborators to join the project. Upload research documents, datasets, and drafts. Track all files per project status stage.

4

Progress Through Stages

Update project status as work advances — through Work In Progress, Submitted to Conference, Submitted to Journal, and on to Accepted or Published. Each transition triggers notifications and is automatically logged.

5

Review & Report

Admins and group heads monitor progress on their dashboards, view audit logs, and export PDF reports covering the institution's research output.

Technology

Built With

A lean, dependency-light stack for reliable shared-hosting deployment.

🐘 PHP 8+
🗄️ MySQL
🎨 Tailwind CSS
Vanilla JavaScript
📈 Chart.js
🔒 CSRF Protection
🌐 REST-style API
🔑 Session Auth
🖥️ Apache / XAMPP

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