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Open access journals can be a boon for the reader of research articles; they are freely available and the editorial standards are often comparable to subscription-based journals. For the researcher seeking to publish research, the…

There are several things a PhD student must do to in order to succeed. There are also things a student must not do if he or she wants to be successful. Here are six things you should avoid. Fudge Data Suppose you have performed a reaction…

The Research Life Cycle When considering the future of academic publishing, a long list of reeling issues will come into the picture. Significant changes in technology, arrival of open access journals, growth of databases, arrival of data…

The Internet is making it easier for open access journals to mount an assault on big publishing companies. These industries insist on keeping their profitable model, wherein they charge high prices to academic libraries for accessing…

Among the unethical practices that exist in the academic publishing field, there is a practice that really bothers researchers: gift authorship. Sometimes, senior supervisors or journal editors try to claim the authorship of some research…

“Megajournal” is a category of open access journals that have a selection criteria smaller than most other peer-reviewed journals. Megajournals contain articles from a wide variety of disciplines; they are a potpourri of many subjects, not…

Most of the commonly used measures of a research paper’s importance rely on counting citations of the paper. Altmetric (derived from Article Level Metrics) is an alternative ranking algorithm that expands on this measure and includes many…

Attending academic conferences can enhance a researcher’s career in several ways. A conference is a venue to obtain information, make contacts, and increase your visibility. Getting Information The stated purpose of an academic conference…

How topical and important are articles published in journals? Which journals should a researcher skim through if he wants to keep up with new and exciting research? One measure that attempts to quantify this is the Immediacy Index of…

Many journals brag about publishing up-to-date, cutting edge research and most researchers want to publish their work in such journals. Journal cited half-life, also known as aggregate cited half-life, is a measure sometimes used to…