Case: An author, who was one of our clients, received reviewers’ comments requesting major revision. On assessing the number of comments/queries from the reviewers (>80), the complexity of most of the queries, and the Read More
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The winners of the prestigious Kyoto Prize, Japan’s outstanding lifetime achievement award, have been announced for this year. Laureate for the Advanced Technology category in the field of Biotechnology and Medical Technology: Dr. Robert Read More
International journals solicit submissions from authors all over the world. But are these journals’ author guidelines clear enough for nonnative English speakers? This study is the recipient of the Best Poster Award (Council of Science Read More
The Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest award presented annually for outstanding lifetime achievement, will be announced tomorrow, June 20, 2014. The internationally esteemed prize is presented to selected intellectuals worldwide who have devoted themselves for the scientific, Read More
This post is written by Jeffrey Beall and summarizes his opinions related to a session held at the SSP 2014 meeting. In late May, 2014, I attended the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Read More
The Acknowledgments section of a research paper is perhaps the easiest to write. After all, you know who has helped you and how, and it should be simple enough to mention these people by their Read More
Journal decision making is complex and involves multiple layers of screening. Peer review is an extremely crucial part of this process, one on which the journal’s decision relies heavily. Many authors, particularly those in Read More
Case: The study proposed a new wound healing technique and involved needle puncture on patients from two medical centers. It was mentioned in the paper that an institutional ethical review board has given ethical approval Read More
Science is all about measuring and counting, and expressions that indicate whether a given figure (quantity) is precise or rounded off are common in all science writing. Although several such expressions mean more or less Read More
What is peer review and how did it originate? Many students and early career researchers often wonder what peer review exactly is. In the simplest terms, it means evaluation and assessment of research by fellow Read More