Open Access Policies and Funding Agency Mandates
In the first infographic of the open access (OA) series, we shared the names of popular OA journals across different disciplines. However, the OA movement has more dimensions to…
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Alarming Data: Cancerous Growth in Predatory Publishing!
The open access movement has not only facilitated unrestricted access to scientific research but also given rise to predatory publishing. This unethical author-pay model has duped…
Know About the Popular Open Access Journals in Your Field
Open access (OA) publishing has not only helped increase the visibility and impact of the research but also facilitated quicker dissemination of knowledge to the academic…
Publishing With Impact: How Authors Should Select the Right Journal
The history of scholarly publication dates back to 1665 when Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society began publishing. With the growth in scientific…
SCImago Journal Rank: An Overview
Publishing in high-impact and high-quality peer-reviewed journals not only helps researchers advance their careers, but also increases the visibility of their work and the odds of…
Transparency in the Peer Review Process
Peer review is an integral part of the publication cycle. It involves an independent and unbiased assessment by reviewers of a manuscript on the grounds of originality,…
Artificial Intelligence in Research and Publishing
The term ”artificial intelligence” was introduced by John McCarthy at a conference at Dartmouth in 1956. Natural language processing, expert systems, neural networks, and robotics…
Open Access: What Do The Numbers Tell Us?
To promote scientific research, it is important that exchange of information and ideas is encouraged at all levels. Since the 1970s, the open access (OA) movement has supported and…
Measuring Research Impact: Citation Metrics
With each year, the number of studies getting published in international peer-reviewed journals continues to increase. So, for any study that gets published, it is very critical…
6 Tips That Will Save You From Journal Rejection
In scholarly publishing, the most crucial time for authors is when they have submitted their manuscript to a journal and are awaiting the response of acceptance. However, journal…
Research Misconduct: Why PhD Students Should Stay Away from It!
Research misconduct involves falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism in conducting or reporting research. Researchers, institutions, regulatory bodies, and publishers are…
An Introduction to Open Access Publishing
In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly community from funders, research organizations, universities, publishers, and researchers due…