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…
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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…
Navigating the Journal Spectrum in Academic Publishing
Every scientist must publish his or her research at some point, and these publications are still integral to the scientific process.1 More often than not, aspiring as well as…
Writing a Good Referee Report
Peer review is a crucial part of scholarly communication. During this process, authors ideally receive helpful comments on the significance and novelty of their work as well as…
Analysis of Retractions in Korean Journals
Publishing research is essential to the growth of the scientific community. Published findings often serve as the basis for future investigations allowing scientists to build on…
Experts’ Take: Giving Proper Credit in Multi-authored Publications
Scholarly manuscripts usually have several authors. New collaborations across scientific disciplines and geographical borders have led to an increase in the number of…
Are Published Peer Review Reports Beneficial?
Although academic journal publishing has been around since the 17th century, the concept of the peer review system is relatively new as traditional peer review was only established…