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Can I write an article that presents a method/process to create educational...
Question Description: Can I write an article that presents a method/process to create educational tools? What type of article would that be? Any recommendations or guidelines?AnswerYou can definitely...
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What does the "With Editor" status mean for Elsevier journals?
Question Description: Hi Dr Eddy, I've submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal. They sent me a mail a month ago stating that it is with the editor-in-chief. Recently I received another email that my...
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Physicians outperform app-based symptom checkers in diagnostic accuracy
Many people use Internet or app-based symptom checkers to make self-diagnosis. To understand whether physicians are better at making diagnoses than symptom checkers, researchers at Harvard Medical...
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Why has the editor sent me only one reviewer's comments?
Question Description: I wish I could see the comments of all the reviewers, but the editor has only sent me the comments of one reviewer. The reviewers made negative comments on my English and pointed...
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How can I withdraw my paper without offending the journal editor?
Question Description: I have submitted my paper to a journal, but after that, one of the co-authors made an objection regarding the contents. I had received only a verbal agreement from him/her before...
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Can I use the content of my earlier published article in my thesis?
Question Description: I submitted a paper to Cancer Medicine in open access 3 years ago. If I submit this OA paper (to the university) as a thesis now, won’t that be considered as duplicate...
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Should I withdraw my paper if the status remains unchanged for over a month?
Question Description: I submitted an original article to a medical journal on September 8, and the status remained “with editor” for more than a month. I sent an inquiry after one month, but received...
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How can I improve the usage of "the" in my manuscript?
Question Description: The editor of my manuscript has asked me to improve my English. Specifically, he/she mentioned that I had misused the word "the." In some places, "the" was not used or was used...
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Cortisol levels in women's hair linked to IVF success
Researchers at the University of Nottingham conducted a study that found that high levels of cortisol, also known as the 'stress hormone', in the hair of women who were undergoing in vitro...
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How animals detect and react to high temperatures
To understand behavioral responses of animals to fast and slow rise in temperature, researchers at the University of California - Santa Barbara conducted a study on fruit fly larvae. They found that a...
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What to do if the manuscript status remains unchanged for over 4 months?
Question Description: Dear Dr. Eddy, I have submitted a manuscript on 7th June, 2016, to a journal that follows Scholar One System. Immediately after submission, the status showed 'editor office...
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Will my paper be accepted if I make the revisions suggested?
Question Description: I have sent a paper for publication in Springer. They sent me an e mail saying "Reviews have been received on your manuscript listed above which you submitted to the journal. The...
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What does the status 'Decision started' mean?
Question Description: After several rounds of revision, when the revised manuscript was submitted, the status showed 'quality check started' - 'peer review' - 'decision started.' What do these status...
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Editage Insights celebrates "Open in Action" during Open Access Week 2016
Today is the start of the International Open Access Week (also known as OA Week), an annual event organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) for the global scholarly...
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How can I get my journal indexed in a database?
Question Description: Basically I don't know how I can get my journal indexed in data bases related to my field such as Master file, EBSCO, Scopus, Ulrich, Cooper nix, ERIC, Cambridge Scientific...
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What are the rules for reusing data sets accompanying publications?
Question Description: Once data sets have been made publicly available along with a publication (as required nowadays by several publishers), what are you expected to do if you intend to reuse them for...
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A young researcher's guide to open access publishing
Open access is steadily gaining momentum in academia, but many young researchers are still unclear about it. What is open access? What are the different venues for publishing open access? This article...
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Misconception about APCs deters an author from publishing open access: A case...
Authors often avoid publishing in open access journals as they are under the misconception that all open access journals charge high APCs. But what if one of the co-authors is keen on publishing open...
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How many open access policies and mandates do we have?
This infographic presents the number and distribution of open access policies and mandates acrosss the globe. The data has been sourced from the Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies...
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Academic publishing and scholarly communications: Good reads, October 2016
Some of you would agree that staying on top of the happenings in the scholarly world this month was no mean feat! To ensure that you didn’t miss out on any of the buzz, our team of editors has curated...
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