Reporting Research

High-quality figures accelerate peer review; poor artwork slows it down. Many publishers explicitly list artwork problems such as low resolution, incorrect aspect ratios, unclear…

The arrival of powerful large language models (LLMs) has changed scholarly writing and posed new risks to research integrity. Evidence from large-scale studies suggests that a…

A bibliometric analysis of 10,558 original research articles published in five leading medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, Nature Medicine, The Lancet, and BMJ) between 2010 and 2019…

Failure to match a target journal’s citation style is a common, avoidable cause of desk rejection and unnecessary revision cycles. Editors and submission checklists routinely…

Manuscript formatting and citation errors are a frequent cause of avoidable delays during journal submission. Editors and author guidelines commonly flag incorrect citation style…

A surprising share of submissions are rejected at the editorial screening stage because of technical or formatting noncompliance - problems that often begin with inconsistent…

Open access (OA) journals and traditional publishers both aim to communicate rigorous research, but their manuscript-formatting expectations often diverge in ways that materially…

The discussion chapter is often the most consequential and the most challenging chapter in a degree thesis. For many examiners, it determines whether reported results make a…

Researchers increasingly turn to generative AI for writing support, and large language models (LLMs) now produce fluent summaries, edits, and suggestions in seconds. Yet recent…

A well-executed literature review can determine whether a thesis is persuasive, publishable, and defensible. Recent guidance emphasizes that review types and reporting standards…

Submitting different article types to the same journal presents a deceptively simple problem: journals often publish a range of formats original research, systematic reviews, short…

The economics of scholarly publishing have shifted substantially in the past decade: global spending on article processing charges (APCs) grew rapidly between 2019 and 2023, and…