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!
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 A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication.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 …
Less Text, More Pictures – Visual Abstracts
In the fast-paced world in which we live, it seems that nobody has time to read a full research article any more. With so much reading done on mobile screens …
How academia can increase the value of research articles
With all the money invested in obtaining research funding, universities should invest more in the end product of that research, namely the publications. That is the argument made by the …
Is that open access publishing fee worth it?
Open access publishing offers readers free access to articles published online, in contrast to a model where articles are available through an individual or institutional subscription to the journal. Most …
“Publish that Paper” just released: Free e-course to improve your scientific publication record
Are you having a difficult time writing a scientific paper? Do you want to publish your manuscripts in more prestigious journals? You are not alone. It is becoming harder to …