Galley Proofs: The Final Step Before Manuscript Publication
The term “galley proof” comes from a time before electronic media, computers, and even typewriters, when type was actually hand set using wooden or metal blocks and placed into…
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Publishing Research
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Publishing the Unpublished Research
BMC Research Notes is a journal that publishes academic research, however, what sets this BioMed Central journal apart from other publishers is the fact that this journal focuses…
Tracking the Progress of Your Manuscript
Submitting an academic research article to a journal has been facilitated exponentially by the introduction of electronic/online submission. Once introduced, electronic submission…
Retractions Due to Image Manipulation by ESL Authors
There are multiple cases of article retractions due to duplicated or manipulated article images which have occurred recently in Life Sciences. These described cases involved…
Tackling the Rapid Growth of Predatory Publishers
Scholarly Open Access, a website known for listing "potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open access publishers" which also had a wide audience, has now been devoid…
Is Portable Peer Review Beneficial for Academic Publishing?
Portable peer review is a model in which the peer review process is conducted without the involvement of the journals, detaching the referee reports from publication in a…
Is the Relative Citation Ratio a Better Metric to Evaluate Scientific Papers?
Academic researchers present their discoveries to the scientific community by publishing papers in academic journals. In order to be able to do the work that contributes to these…
Role of Preprint in Academic Publishing
Multiple platforms have appeared over the past decade for the online deposition of pre-publication scientific articles. Will they durably change the traditional academic publishing…
Think Check Submit: A New Approach to Journal Selection
The rapid shift from print to digital publishing in the last decade has ushered in an unprecedented growth in scholarly journals and overall publications. Many in academia,…
Becoming a Good Peer Reviewer
Peer review plays an important role in academic publishing, giving authors of research papers a validation of their work and providing readers with reliable, high-quality content.…
Can Peer Review Training Help Graduate Students Improve Their Writing Skills?
Whenever we submit a manuscript to a good journal, it is carefully scrutinized by the editors and other experts in the field before being accepted. We all know how important this…
Aperta: Improving Journal Submissions
The most important job of a journal editor is to ensure that there is a steady flow of high-quality papers. A journal without great content, cannot survive. In order to make sure…