Best practices for peer reviewers
What is the matter with some reviewers? I understand that it is an uncomfortable job as it is not remunerated, it takes time to do it well and we are such a perfect scholars… So I think some guidelines...
View ArticleJournal owners, you make the publishin’ world go round
To understand a journal and have an opportunity to be published, besides knowing it well (its editors, the editorial line, what kind of articles it publishes or if it charges fees to authors), I find...
View ArticleTomorrow belongs to cites
Over the last decades, journal rankings moved from something only a few librarians cared about to something that is now critical to the future of professors and researchers. The same thing could happen...
View ArticleGaudeamus: 1.000 profs and editors building a better academic world
Let me use the poem Desiderata (Max Ehrmann, 1920) with other words: The world is full of trickery. But let this not blind us to what virtue there is; many profs strive for high ideals, and everywhere...
View ArticlePOLL: The current use of open access journals
Open access (OA) journals has been one of the main drivers of change in the academic publishing world in the last decades, and OA will still shape the future of assessment of research quality and...
View ArticleNew eBook: ‘Publish in Journals 3.0’
With this new eBook ‘Publish in Journals 3.0: From Manuscript to Citations‘, my idea was to develop a useful model to help professors to publish in journals, since we live in a very demanding academic...
View ArticleOpen Access Journals: The model that would be king. Poll results
The topic of Open Access (OA) has already been widely discussed in academia and currently it is a common reality in the publishing world, but there are still some doubts and suspicions on the part of...
View ArticleBook review: ‘How to get research published in journals’
This is my review of the book, ‘How to get research published in journals‘ (A. Day, 2007), the first of which I will perform in the future on the subject of writing and publishing scientific papers,...
View ArticlePOLL: Do you bet your future as a researcher on Google Scholar metrics?
The journals’ world is boiling: Internet and Open Access is questioning the indexed journals’ model, from anonymity in peer review to the selection criteria of the directories or databases, and the...
View ArticlePoll results on quality of research: Journals 3-2 H-Index
What a surprise! There have been fewer responses than in other polls, I thought that there were more interest on this topic, but the results are clear on quality of research: Journals 3-2 H-Index. Is...
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