Via popular culture, the BULLETIN OF ZOMBIE RESEARCH: VOLUME 1 introduces readers to the methods, language, and structure of scientific literature. The effort applies the same skills and knowledge that scientists use, but in a different application that relies heavily on creativity that is also fundamental to good science (and good science fiction!).

The BULLETIN OF ZOMBIE RESEARCH is a mock scientific journal established in 2014 by the make-believe SOCIETY OF ZOMBIE RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT. The SOCIETY's mission is to support the study of Zooanthroponotic Occult MetaBiomimetic Infectious Encephalitis, known as ZOMBI Encephalitis or ZOMBIE.

ZOMBIE management programs previously operated under a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions. Management was guided by beliefs that ZOMBIEs maintained neither the identity nor the cognitive abilities of their disease-free human origins, but instead functioned in an animated, feeding-focused, solely instinct-based vegetated state. That vegetated state has been described to include losses in reasoning, comprehension of cause and effect, abilities to learn and predict, as well as the loss of language and communication skills.
 
Research now suggests otherwise! Observations of ZOMBIE group aggregation, reciprocal sound production, and changes in behavior following apparent eye contact suggest previously undescribed coordination among ZOMBIEs. New methods for conducting safe field and lab studies also reveal gestational concerns when the fetus is a ZOMBIE, correlations with butterfly and weed populations, and associations with gut health, lung cancer prognosis, and hair loss.

The BULLETIN OF ZOMBIE RESEARCH: VOLUME 1 is intended for science fiction and ZOMBIE enthusiasts as well as for use in education. Enticing readers with unconventional topics contained in chapters that mimic scientific journal articles dissolves barriers to accessing and understanding science.