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Peer Review: A Forgotten Service? The peer review process in academic journal publishing only seems to get attention when something goes wrong. From the perspective of an anxious author awaiting an answer on the submission of his or her…

Pronouns are simple to define but can be confusing to use. For example, the statement, "Each person should follow their dreams," represents a failure to correctly balance the singular (each person) and the plural (their dreams). Correcting…

What are Citation Metrics? The extent to which a research paper or academic text is cited in other pieces of academic work such as papers, thesis, dissertations, or other texts has now become the ‘gold standard’ for measuring the outcome…

Validation is Not News Academic journals face something of a quandary in their publication cycles. Publishing monthly or quarterly gives you the luxury of curating your content more carefully than scrambling to find verifiable sources in a…

Addressing an “Innovation Deficit” Basic research, also known as pure or foundational research, is losing ground against the deeper pockets of the corporations and institutions that are directing their attention towards applied research.…

Starting Over Receiving a rejection notice or a request for endless revisions prior to re-submission (which you choose to decline) has the frustrating result of having to start the peer review process all over again. Given that you will…

Denver, CO: Enago is gearing up for the 2016 Council of Science Editors’ (CSE) annual meeting. This year’s conference, entitled “Thriving in the New Frontier,” will be held from May 14 to May 17 in Denver, CO, USA. Among Enago’s…

A Contractual Obligation Even though no money usually changes hands between author and journal in the publication of an academic article or research paper, there is still a legal contract to specify what can and cannot be done with the…

Human Translation vs Machine Translation The debate between human translation and machine translation has been in around for a long time now. While some disagree on the differences between the two, most believe that the quality of one is…

Publication at Any Price! As a doctoral graduate or junior researcher, publication is everything. Under constant pressure to "publish or perish,"  the perceived value of that recently completed thesis, dissertation, or research study is…