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 A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication.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 …
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 …
Tips to prepare a scientific manuscript that gets published
Recently, I gave a webinar on publishing a scientific manuscript for the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). [An archived version of the webinar is located AMWA On Demand Webinars.] In …
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 …