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Journal Selection

This post provides details for authors who wish to submit to The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Abel Packer is one of founders of SciELO, or Scientific Electronic Library Online, and current Coordinator of the SciELO/FAPESP Program and Advisor of Information and…
Provides concise information to potential contributors to the journal Neurosurgery.
Meet Stacy Konkiel, Outreach & Engagement Manager at Altmetric, a company that tracks online activity relating to scholarly literature. Previously, Stacy was the…
This post offers an overview of essential author information for submission to the journal Spine, a leading international journal in the field of spinal disorders.
The very words “Impact Factor” can send a shiver of fear through the spines of many journal editors as they contemplate the next number their journals will receive. Yet…
The impact factor: For better or for worse
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Predatory scholarly conferences pose a new threat to scholarly communications as researchers find themselves inundated with spam emails soliciting their attendance at…
Considering presenting a paper at a scholarly conference? Choose carefully
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Science is becoming open and how! Gone are the days when researchers and institutions believed in keeping scientific data  behind strict and complex institutional…
Editage conducted a webinar in association with Stacy Konkiel from the Altmetric team, which was titled Finding and sharing your research impact: Use Altmetric …
This post clarifies the function of ISSN, the International Standard Serial Number, and affirms that because a journal has an ISSN assigned to it, it does not imply that…