Today is International Tea Day, and I’m celebrating with a nice big mug of my favourite brew before tackling the day’s work – genuinely the most refreshing and reviving moment of the day! As a lifelong tea lover I know I can [ read more ]
Sunday 12 May is National Limerick Day – and what better way to celebrate than to get creative and generate something silly and joyful to share with the world! Just remember …
An editor’s job isn’t easy,
And often the pay is quite measly,
But [ read more ]
With all the technology at our disposal, why is it still difficult to get authors’ names right in journal articles? How is it that any name that doesn’t quite fit the basic ‘forename surname’ convention is immediately in danger of being mangled, [ read more ]
Tuesday 23 April is World Book and Copyright Day – a UNESCO-recognised event that also celebrates Strasbourg as the World Book Capital of 2024. The world would be infinitely poorer without the cultural, developmental and intellectual achievements made possible by books, not [ read more ]
Tim Vines and Ben Kaube kicked off a sparky debate with their post in The Scholarly Kitchen this week, which considers the argument for ‘honest signalling’ as a way of judging the scientific integrity of a research paper – in other words, [ read more ]
Warnings from history reverberate through time – the New England Journal of Medicine is currently running a series of special articles examining the biases and injustices that the journal has historically helped to perpetuate, and which now with hindsight should bear critical [ read more ]
Did you know that Saturday 13 April is National Scrabble Day? Well, now you do!
I was something of a latecomer to Scrabble, as there was never a tradition of playing it in my family. I still remember my childish triumph at my [ read more ]
🐣 🐰 The Easter weekend is nearly here – is your editorial resource adequately covered over the holiday?
If you have a project that needs an end-to-end quality control check, or maybe a publication that needs a thorough fact check, get in touch [ read more ]
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 ]