A Guide to Self-Archiving for Young Research Scientists
Openly available science is becoming increasingly lauded. As publication fees for open access journals and subscription cost skyrocket, self-archiving has become a trend and for…
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Issue at Hand: Outcome Switching in Clinical Trials
Randomized clinical trials are widely accepted as the gold standard approach to test new line of drugs, therapies, or treatments. They reduce bias by randomly allocating patients…
Understanding the Regulations: GLP vs GCP vs GMP
The quality of data or goods resulting from scientific research must be held to high standards. For this reason, the GLP regulations, GCP guidelines, and GMP guidelines must be…
What Is a Camera-Ready Copy?
“Camera-ready” copy refers to the final stage of text, tables, and illustrations of a manuscript and includes proper formatting. What is submitted as camera ready is printed as it…
Smart Data Sharing: Which License Should you Choose?
Currently, researchers are finding that most funding agencies, organizations, and some professional journals, require data sharing as a condition of grants, awards, or for…
Should Data Sets Be Peer Reviewed?
Scientists publish peer-reviewed articles frequently–they make breakthroughs in research and share them with the world. These research projects also require data collection;…
How to Publish Your Medical Research in a Reputed Journal
High-quality research is essential for the development of any field of science, and this is particularly true for the medical sciences. Reputed academic journals play an important…
Intellectual Property Rights in Corporate-Sponsored Research
Intellectual property (IP) is the knowledge and output that results from intellectual activity. In terms of research, IP can be input, such as ideas, findings, or teaching…
LaTeX: Is it the Standard for Scientific Document Preparation?
LaTeX is a document preparation system based on a typesetting system called “TeX”, developed by Donald Knuth (Professor Emeritus at Stanford University) in 1974. The word TeX finds…
Academic Piracy: Revolution or Robbery?
Academic publishers are largely responsible for the production of textbooks and journals. Typically, these publishers make money by selling subscriptions to their journals and…
Learning to Avoid Journal Rejection
In academic publishing, journal rejection rates can vary widely. According to the American Psychological Association’s 2013 report, its top journals averaged a rejection rate of…
Integrity or Impact: What Matters in Scientific Publishing?
The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is becoming a serious problem in scholarly communication. Scientific success is often measured by the number of high-impact articles…