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How can you measure the quality of a research paper? More importantly, how can you determine whether your research is making an impact and is considered important? An…
- Editage Insights
- November 4, 2013
Research papers go through a long and thorough process of peer review so that the published papers are free of errors and mistakes. Despite this, sometimes some errors…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
Plagiarism is often one of the commonly cited reasons behind retraction of scientific papers. However, should plagiarism in any form necessarily result in journal…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 12, 2014
Early career researchers face countless challenges as they push their way through the academic publishing world. Most of these issues are experienced by many but are…
- OLA AL-BATAYNEH
- September 9, 2016
This post discusses the article Why Open Access for Brazil (2008) by Alma Swan, which takes a deeper look at barriers that prevent Brazilian scientific research from…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- August 26, 2014
"As the number of scientists conducting research has reached unforeseen heights, it appears that the quality of conducted and published research has reached new lows."…
- Rasha Alam
- January 23, 2014
China is the top annual producer of PhDs in the world today, having surpassed even the US since 2008. Despite the fact that post-graduate programs in China resumed only…
- Kakoli Majumder
- August 18, 2014
Poor English can delay the publication of research. A recent article in New Scientist, a British weekly science magazine, mentions that poor English “is another fac
- Yateendra Joshi
- March 17, 2014
As an academic copyeditor who helps authors prepare journal-ready manuscripts on a daily basis, I work on a number of manuscripts that need to be formatted as per…
- Beverly D’souza
- January 9, 2015
Understanding the citation patterns and the trends in the use of citation metrics is vital to gaining insights into the dynamic landscape of scholarly publishing. Read…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 19, 2015