TOP SUGGESTIONS ESSENCE – Seven principles for strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries: simple ideas in a complex world (see Guideline 6). Research Capacity Building in Africa: Perceived Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Impacting on the Doctoral Training for Development Programme in Africa Challenges faced by early career researchers in low and middle income countries – how can we support them? ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE Language barriers and qualitative nursing research LexisNexis. Overcoming Language Barriers in Patent Research Overcoming language barriers in community-based research