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A quick overview of the submission requirements and author instructions of the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.
- Editage Insights
- April 8, 2015
In this post, Dr. Goldman discusses how a journal editor identifies potential peer reviewers for a submitted paper and the reasons for delay at this stage of editorial…
- Dr. Helle V. Goldman
- April 7, 2015
Authors find the peer review process daunting mainly because of the delays in editorial decision making. Why do editors take long to inform authors about the fate of…
- Dr. Helle V. Goldman
- April 6, 2015
How much of an impact does research have outside of science? Is scientific impact quantifiable? The Research Excellence Framework (REF) measures the impact of research…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 6, 2015
Many journals publish literature reviews as standalone articles. Literature reviews, along with systematic reviews and meta-analyses come under the broad category of…
- Kakoli Majumder
- April 2, 2015
Should germline modification – a gene-editing technique – be allowed on human embryos? This ethically laced question has generated much hype and discussion among…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 31, 2015
Conflicting reviewer comments can be confusing, especially when there is no clear guidance from the editor about which comments to address. This article reports a case…
- Kakoli Majumder
- March 30, 2015
This post offers a few tips on how to make Google searches more effective.
- Yateendra Joshi
- March 30, 2015
The 2015 Abel Prize was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters to two prominent mathematicians: John Nash and Louis Nirenberg. The Abel Prize,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 27, 2015
P-values are widely used as the basis of testing null hypothesis, but many experts have been critical of the use of p-values. Now, the journal Basic and Applied…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 16, 2015