If we consider peer review central to academic publishing, training to become a peer reviewer should be an integral part of researcher learning. For a moment, I’d like you to imagine two situations. Situation 1 – Read More
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Trust is the underlying factor for the key stakeholders in the publishing cycle—researchers, journal editors, and peer reviewers. As we will see, trust is at play at various touchpoints of interactions among editors, researchers, Read More
Mention AI to some people, and they may think of sentient, all-knowing computers intent on destroying human life. Mention to researchers who have submitted a manuscript to a journal that AI may help evaluate their Read More
Research on the housing affordability problem is abundant. But a compilation of this research shows that it has been challenging to even define the term ‘housing affordability,’ given the nuances of the concept. Much of Read More
Preprints refer to scientific manuscripts uploaded on public servers, which are freely available for the world to view and comment on. However, preprints often fail the quality and trust test as they are not subject Read More
With ‘Trust’ being the central theme of this year’s Peer Review Week, I would like to pose a question to you: what makes you trust a piece of scientific literature? Is it a research Read More
The theme of Peer Review Week 2020 is Trust in Peer Review, and this topic is more important than ever with the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world. The idea is to understand how top peer Read More
The refrain of “peer review is broken” or “science is broken” is slowly reaching a crescendo. Concomitant with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an “infodemic,” replete with unfortunate accounts of retractions in journals of Read More
The Toyota ‘5 Whys’ Technique Sakichi Toyoda, the king of Japanese inventors, developed a simple yet powerful technique for finding the root cause of a problem. He called it the Five Whys, and it is still Read More
An editing service like Editage’s Scientific Editing can improve your chances of acceptance by Providing an in-depth technical evaluation of study quality, methodology, and analysis Polishing language for clarity, coherence, logic, and flow Formatting Read More
