There was a very illuminating post on The Scholarly Kitchen last week about journal publishing lead times and the way in which they vary so unpredictably – there is much more to judging their performance than equating prestige and high submission rate [ read more ]
In the ever-expanding landscape of open access journals, two new publications have just been launched: BJR Artificial Intelligence, published by Oxford Academic for the British Institute of Radiology; and CMI Communications, published by Elsevier partnering with the European Society of [ read more ]
Friday 8 March is NATIONAL PROOFREADING DAY!
Why not celebrate by getting someone to read what you’ve written, and benefit from the feedback and corrections they make? It could potentially save your credibility and your blushes …
Proofreading isn’t pedantry – it’s good communication. [ read more ]
I have years of experience of working with non-native English-speaking authors to help improve their chances of getting their research accepted in English language journals. In a landscape where over 90% of research in the natural sciences is published in English1, editing [ read more ]
In a fascinating post by Teresa Kubacka for ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’, she shares her adventures in beta-testing the new ScopusAI tool, which was released last summer. Her testing, using her PhD research topic, revealed a bewildering randomness in the retrieval and analysis [ read more ]
So results are in, and the MedComms Freelancing Barometer Survey 2024 has revealed consistent expressions of anxiety and insecurity about the health of the industry and the direction in which it is heading. The full results are at https://uk.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-WAjd3OsOjNwCBOtPB_2B0t3A_3D_3D/.
Many [ read more ]
I wish I had long tracts of uninterrupted time to wallow in a good book – but life and all its various distractions makes it almost impossible for me to spend guilt-free hours doing nothing but sit alone in a warm, comfortable [ read more ]
I’ve never disguised my pessimism about the threatened use of artificial intelligence to automate the editorial quality control of copy, but there’s no denying that when it comes to the heavy lifting involved with spotting plagiarism and manipulation, AI does not tire, [ read more ]
I’m a relative newcomer to ‘The Conversation’ but I find myself turning to it with increasing frequency as a source of thought-provoking, succinct news articles that don’t just go for the killer headline or regurgitate the stale contents of an endless echo-chamber, [ read more ]
More than ever, diligent fact-checking before releasing a publication into the wild is absolutely essential in a media industry that is already awash with individuals and sources all claiming to be authoritative and reliable, not to mention the nefarious use of generative [ read more ]