Other factors being equal, it is in the interest of not only authors, not only the academic community as a whole, but of society at large that the open access movement be supported and promoted by…
- Yateendra Joshi
- October 22, 2024
For more than 50 years,<em> Journal Citation Reports</em> (JCR) has been providing a measure of the quality or standing of academic journals. The measure, namely Journal Impact Factor, is…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 14, 2024
Read aloud any text that requires parallel structure: disturbed rhythm while reading aloud is a reliable indicator of unparallel structure. Brush up your grammar so that you can pinpoint the part of…
- Yateendra Joshi
- July 3, 2024
Learn in depth how to write plain-language summaries and know more about the strategies you can use to write them.
- Yateendra Joshi
- May 23, 2024
Plagiarizing is often resorted to because it saves time and effort, and many are not even aware that plagiarizing is a violation of ethics. Here we give some examples of plagiarism and consequences…
- Yateendra Joshi
- April 29, 2024
Self-plagiarism can have unintended consequences, and it is safer to mention upfront that you are reusing your own text – but without violating any copyright – and supply the relevant information or…
- Yateendra Joshi
- April 8, 2024
Editage Insights brings you this curated list, focussed on preparing effective tables and figures as adjuncts to text in research papers.
- Yateendra Joshi
- January 8, 2024
The task of writing a book (or a monograph) is bound to appear daunting, but the trick to completing it is to divide it into manageable chunks and to follow a systematic process. Read on to find how!
- Yateendra Joshi
- October 10, 2023
This post looks at the relavence of style guides in today's digital world, talks about subject-specific style manuals and general-purpose style manuals, and explains why it still holds the same…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 24, 2023
Are you an author or contributor? Is this a question that often occurs to you? This article explains CRediT, short for Contributor Roles Taxonomy, to help you with properly filling the CRediT…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 18, 2023