Retractions Due to Fake Peer Reviews
When scientific manuscripts are submitted to a journal they have to undergo a peer review process so that the journal can decide whether or not they should publish the article. In…
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Writing an Effective Appeal Letter to a Journal Editor
It would be surprising to learn of a scientist whose work had not been rejected by an academic journal at some point in their career. Some of the most famous scientists have been…
Difference between Researchers Publishing in Low-Impact and High-Impact Journals
In a recent study, researchers from different hospitals and research institutions in Sao Paolo, Brazil investigated the differences between researchers publishing in low-impact…
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…
Publishing the Unpublished Research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,…