Parenting your Peer Reviewers
Put on your parenting hat next time you’re responding to peer review feedback for a scientific manuscript, and see if you get results!
How Reviewers Dissect NIH Grant Applications vs. Scientific Manuscripts
You need to wear different thinking caps when you write NIH grant applications or scientific manuscripts, because reviewers are dissecting each document in unique ways.
Is it Retracted? Check Before You Cite.
It’s rare, but it happens. A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication. Some are retracted …
Peer review: who, why, and how
Whether you are a veteran researcher or just beginning your academic career, you are probably familiar with the concept of peer review. In an ideal world, peer reviewers would politely …
Is your journal publisher up to par?
Recent developments in scientific publishing have many folks scrutinizing open-access journals a bit more closely. A journalist with Science concocted a fake manuscript that, in his words, was a …
How to Make Informed Medical Decisions
It can be difficult to make sense of all the contradicting medical advice presented in the media. Thankfully, there are some great resources that independently review medical studies and make …