Articles
Journal Submission & Peer Review
Authors sometimes have preconceived ideas about copyright. Some authors are under the impression that open access articles do not have copyright. Such a mistaken idea…
- Kakoli Majumder
- June 28, 2016
Most journals require complete disclosure of potential conflicts of interest from authors at the time of submission.However, it is sometimes difficult for authors to…
- Kakoli Majumder
- July 28, 2016
As an author, you want to get published in the right journal by the right editor. Terry Monahan, Managing Editor of the journal Eye and Contact Lens shares her top…
- Wolters Kluwer
- March 8, 2017
Those who are new to the field of academic publishing might have the impression that submitting research papers to journals and getting them published are orderly…
- Yateendra Joshi
- November 11, 2013
Poor copyediting leads to the publication of a paper with errors and without final approval by the author. When the author informs the EIC, a correction is made, but the…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 18, 2015
When a peer reviewer receives an invitation to review, they are expected to disclose potential conflicts of interest. But some reviewers fail to be transparent and…
- Kakoli Majumder
- September 12, 2017
An author is surprised and confused when the instructions provided by the journal submission system are different from those provided in the author guidelines on the…
- Kakoli Majumder
- September 3, 2015
When a journal does not provide clear information about the APC on its website, but informs the author of the amount only after acceptance, the author finds the charges…
- Kakoli Majumder
- September 29, 2015
Some journal editors ask authors to include inappropriate or irrelevant citations in their papers in an effort to artificially inflate the journal's impact factor. If…
- Caven Mcloughlin
- October 9, 2017
Whenever we think about predation in the context of scholarly publishing, we habitually point a finger at publishers and journals that are willing to publish any piece…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 22, 2017