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Editing is an art that follows a strict scientific process. Authors can learn from the process and, in the absence of an edit, can at least survive if not succeed as…
Caroline Banton is a professional writer and editor with 15 years of experience in the field of scholarly writing. She has served as an Assistant Editor for the in-house…
"The best papers don't try to tackle too many issues at once; they choose to simplify the findings."
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Anuradha Alahari holds a PhD degree in microbiology and has 20 years of diverse post-doctoral research experience in biochemistry, infectious diseases and neurobiology…
Researchers facing challenges with funding and infrastructure may stand to learn from the region's recent events.
Innovation in academia in the Middle East
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With digitalization and open access being the order of the day, science is becoming increasingly collaborative in nature. This article discusses authorship and how the…
Defining authorship: A taxonomy to assign contributor roles in multi-author papers
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Learn about the journal Cell in this brief profile of key facts, requirements, and suggested links.
This chapter, published as part of the Science Editors' Handbook by EASE, touches on the concerns of science editors but focuses mainly on what scientific copy-editors…
1.9: Editing and design of tables (Science Editors' Handbook)
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Drawing on over forty years of experience in senior management positions with numerous leading publishers and as Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of CIBER Research,…
"Digital transition in scholarly communication – We expected more change"
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Wouldn’t be interesting to know how the general public perceives science and what their views are about researchers? 
Perceptions of science in media and the non-scientific community
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The author describes common errors with style encountered in his editorial practice. These range from seemingly trivial errors with capitalisation and italicisation to…