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Retractions send a clear message that the validity of the paper has been brought into question. The fellow researchers who may be citing that paper, or even worse, moving forward with research based on the retracted study face a lot of…

Colombia/Mexico: Staying updated about the various aspects of the publishing process is extremely important for early-stage researchers, especially student researchers who are also ESL. In this vein, Enago, in collaboration with three of…

About Rebecca Benner Rebecca Benner is Senior Director and Managing Editor at Obstetrics & Gynecology (The Green Journal). She is responsible for coordinating the efforts of authors, reviewers, the Editorial Board, editors, staff,…

During the second Peer Review Week in 2016, there were extensve discussions on how the institution of peer review is far from perfect. The problems with peer review in scientific publishing are well known: it is inefficient and tedious for…

In academia when we consider the term “non-traditional”, the concept of a non-traditional student (NTS) comes to mind. A great deal of attention and resources have been devoted to winning these NTS’s since they have a unique set of learning…

You may have probably heard about fake papers that made it into peer-reviewed publications over the past few years, but now even fake peer reviews are being generated. A group of Italian scientists recently developed a software that can…

In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is being accessed, there are several potential ideas that can…

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."  – Oscar Wilde The previous post consisted of a collation of the basic rules of comma usage. Continuing in that…

Researchers and academicians often complain about the unrelenting pressure to “publish or perish”. The extent to which the quantity of published work, and the extent to which that work has been cited by your peers and others professionals,…

Comma usage remains one of the most misunderstood concepts in writing. The misconception that a comma can be arbitrarily inserted to denote a pause must be dispensed with. There are specific (and quite stringent) rules that should be…