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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…

Most grad students face this dilemma at one point or another: the stipend they receive (if they receive one at all) just isn’t enough to get by. You generally don’t have a lot of time to contribute to an outside job but you need the money,…

You have an article ready to go and you’re anxious to get it published. You know that if you submit to one journal, it could potentially take over a year for it to be published. And, even if it is rejected, you might not know for months.…

Throughout history there always seems to have been a predominant language for communication. Greek once served this role in the ancient Mediterranean until it was displaced by Latin, which was the language of the expanding Roman Empire.…