Peer review—involving sound academic assessment of scholarly articles has long been a cornerstone of journal quality and academic prosperity. To be rigorous, the review system must embody two critical mechanisms. First, the journal must Read More
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Indeed, China’s academic publishing industry is thriving; it is offering its scholars thousands of journals to publish in. However, when benchmarked against journals from English-speaking countries, Chinese journals lag behind in quality. To increase Read More
Incidents of gender discrimination in science have come to light and have been widely discussed. However, in a remarkable case, six African researchers working for the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Wellcome Trust Research Programme Read More
Case: One of our clients had sent us his manuscript to edit. During the edit, our editor suggested that the significance of the findings could be clearer if the data was presented in the form Read More
While publishing a research paper in English, journals normally request the author to add a statement in the end: “the researcher claims no conflicts of interest.” This is the author’s declaration that guarantees objective Read More
Publisher National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (United States) Aims and Scope Environmental Health Perspectives aims to communicate recent scientific findings and trends in the environmental health sciences; improve the environmental health knowledge base among Read More
As publishing a paper in journals with a Thompson-Reuter impact factor becomes increasingly important for academics and researchers, it should come as no surprise that they will go to any length to publish. One such Read More
The sphere of scientific communication is dominated by English. Even though ESL (English-as-a-second-language) authors may have conducted groundbreaking research and published their findings in their first language, their work is not likely to gain international Read More
Case: An author took the assistance of Editage for the editing and submission of his manuscript. We edited and formatted the manuscript as per the journal guidelines, but the author preferred to access the journal Read More
I attended the 12th General Assembly and Conference of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) in Split, Croatia, June 12-15, 2014. I arrived in Split, a scenic coastal city along the Adriatic Sea, excited about Read More