Interviews

Prof. Zabta Khan Shinwari is the Secretary-General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Biotechnology Department of the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Following a hard-earned graduation degree from Pakistan, Prof. Shinwari went on to obtain a PhD and multiple postdoctoral fellowships in Japan. Over the years, he built a reputation as a passionate bioethicist who believes in the potential of scientific discovery to benefit humanity. His work in bioethics led to...

Prof. Zabta Khan Shinwari is the Secretary-General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Biotechnology Department of the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Following a hard-earned graduation degree from Pakistan, Prof. Shinwari went on to obtain a PhD and multiple postdoctoral fellowships in Japan. Over the years, he built a reputation as a passionate bioethicist who believes in the potential of scientific discovery to benefit humanity. His work in bioethics led to...

Danielle Padula, Community Development Coordinator at Scholastica, is responsible for managing Scholastica’s blog and social media activity. She also develops content for journal teams to help them understand best publication practices and for researchers to help them in their publication journey. In this interview, Danielle discusses a white paper published by Scholastica "Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access" that discusses the problem of serials...

Dr. Kim Holmberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education (RUSE) at the University of Turku, Honorary Research Fellow at the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at University of Wolverhampton, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University. His research involves altmetrics, webometrics, scientometrics, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and virtual worlds in education. He also uses quantitative methods to study...

Dr. Jonas Ranstam, a medical statistician, was the overall winner of the Sentinels of Science Awards (2016). He was affiliated with several institutions, including Lund University, Sweden, as Professor and senior lecturer of medical statistics and is currently an independent statistics consultant. He is also deputy editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, statistical editor for British Journal of Surgery, a statistics consultant for Acta Orthopaedica, and a statistical reviewer for several...

Dr. Jonas Ranstam, a medical statistician, was the overall winner of the Sentinels of Science Awards (2016). He was affiliated with several institutions, including Lund University, Sweden, as Professor and senior lecturer of medical statistics and is currently an independent statistics consultant. He is also deputy editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, statistical editor for British Journal of Surgery, a statistics consultant for Acta Orthopaedica, and a statistical reviewer for several...

Dr. Hyungsun Kim, Professor at the School of Materials Engineering, Inha University, Korea, has 20 years of experience teaching academic writing and best publication practices to Asian researchers and journal editors. Dr. Kim serves as an adviser for the Content Selection Board for SCOPUS in Korea. He is the newest President of the Korean Council of Science Editors (KSCE) as well as a member of several professional societies including the Council of Asian Science Editors (of which he is the...

As you brace yourselves to face a new spate of challenges in academic writing and publication in the coming year, we want to support you in your journey with some handy tips. These will, hopefully, make life a bit easier for you in 2017.

Barbara Gastel (BA, MD, MPH), coordinates the master's degree program in science and technology journalism at Texas A&M University. She has written three books on communicating and teaching science. She has also authored with Robert A. Day the latest editions of "How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper"; published many articles and chapters on writing, editing, teaching, and medical topics; and edited the Council of Science Editors, periodical, "Science Editor....

This is the final segment of the conversation between Dr. Donald Samulack, President US Operations, Editage, Cactus Communications, in conversation with Dr. Anne Woods, Chief Nursing Officer at WKH, and Shawn Kennedy, Editor in Chief, American Journal of Nursing In this concluding segment, the discussion centers around how the academic community is closely connected and authors do not have scope for fraudulent activities such as selling their research or plagiarizing. The upside is that fraud...