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What types of articles do journals publish?
51629656As a researcher, you are expected to start publishing early in your career. But original research could take years to complete! This does not mean that you cannot publish a paper until you...
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Industry-wide call for creating a Coalition for Responsible Publication...
Donald Samulack, PhD (President, U.S. Operations, Cactus Communications and Editage) presented and launched an industry-wide call-to-action titled “Predatory Author Services: What Can be Done About...
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"Health information is a universal right, not a privilege or commodity."
Dr. Robert Porter is the Editor-in-Chief of The Merck Manuals, one of the oldest and most widely used medical resources for medical professionals and consumers. Dr. Porter earned his MD from Hahnemann...
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The "Publish. Cite. Reward." scheme of a biosciences company irks academia
"Cite us in your publication and earn $100 or more based on your journal's impact factor!" This was the subject of the e-mail many academics received in the past week from Cyagen Biosciences Inc., a...
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What can be a good title for my article on improved port facilities?
Question Description: I am writing an article about improved port facilities. I need an appropriate title for my paper. Can you help?Answer: It is difficult to suggest a title for your paper without...
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The importance of conformance in grant proposals
Writing a grant proposal requires a lot of time and effort. But all this effort can go waste if the proposal does not conform to the requirements set by the funding agency. Non-conformance to the...
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Should I include the keyword density map in the methods section?
Question Description: Hi, I have 9 interviews for a master's thesis paper. In the results section, I plan to mention the most common words used in the interviews that are also related to the research...
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Ants can detect their health issues and self-medicate
Humans are intelligent creatures and use medicines to treat themselves. However, do ants know how to treat their ailments? Researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, discovered that ants are...
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Researchers develop a 'universal' vaccine against a range of influenza subtypes
A team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) has developed a vaccine that provides immunity against a...
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How should a journal address an authorship dispute?
Question Description: An article has been published in a journal which is indexed on PubMed. There is an authorship conflict. 5 out of 6 authors have not contributed to the study and the real guide and...
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Should data secrecy be considered as research misconduct?
Although most researchers agree that data sharing is the scientific ideal, there exists a general skepticism regarding making their data publicly accessible. Since withholding data can impede the...
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Researchers discover a way of controlling stem cell growth using beams of light
Stem cells receive various molecular cues, but they differentiate between these cues i.e. they ignore the irrelevant cues and respond only to the crucial signs by rapidly developing to form major organ...
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Eureka Prizes
The winners of the 2015 Eureka Prizes were announced on August 26. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are annual awards that reward “excellence in the fields of research & innovation, leadership,...
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Converting non-SI units to SI units: psi, mesh number, and quintals
Discusses the three non-SI units mentioned in the title (psi, mesh number, and quintals) and supplies appropriate conversion factors.Most researchers submitting papers to international peer-reviewed...
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2nd Asian Science Editors' Conference and Workshop 2015: Meeting report
This is a report of the 2nd Asian Science Editors' Conference and Workshop, organized by the Council of Asian Science Editors (CASE), in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 20-22, 2015.I attended and conducted a...
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Academic publishing and scholarly communications: Good reads, August 2015
Our team of editors loves to stay on the top of goings on in the academic publishing industry. We would like to share with you some of the most interesting bits of information our editorial team came...
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The impact factor: For better or for worse
The very words “Impact Factor” can send a shiver of fear through the spines of many journal editors as they contemplate the next number their journals will receive. Yet this measurement can be an aid...
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Navigating the world of publishing in English academic journals: A guide for...
This post reviews the book A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English: critical choices and practical strategies The book A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English: critical choices and...
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A young researcher's guide to perspective, commentary, and opinion articles
Perspectives, opinion pieces, and commentaries are some short scholarly article types that journals publish. This article explains what each of these articles includes, what the usual journal...
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Researchers develop a new techinque to observe live cells in action
Eric Betzig of Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, and his colleagues have applied...
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