FemaleScienceProfessor

Emma Pierson has written a very interesting article titled In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last . The article is filled with data a...

When you are submitting a manuscript, do you format the text, tables etc. in the style of the journal or do you wait and see if the paper i...

Can you think of a (good) reason why a journal would need to know the gender of authors and reviewers? A reader wrote to me with this que...

Today in Scientopia , I open discussion of a grad student's question about how authorship is decided on a paper, and whether a research ...

How many times can a paper be rejected before you give up submitting it to journals? .. a reader wonders. We need data. How many times...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss the question of what to do if you provide information (e.g., data) to a colleague for a publication but you ...

A few times since I have been a journal editor or guest editor, authors of rejected manuscripts have written angry e-mails railing against t...

Some comments to yesterday's post reminded me of something I have been wondering: If you are the (or a) major author on a paper submitt...

As I was reviewing a manuscript recently, I saw this sentence: .." and existing models to explain this phenomenon are inadequate [3]. ...

A reader writes with a query about some manuscripts that were rejected without review; in one case the summary rejection was sort of underst...

A letter in the 3 June 2010 issue of Nature addresses "The role of mentorship in protégé performance". That sounds sort of inte...

It used to be the case that it was worth sending awesome manuscripts to the highest impact journals because, if they were going to reject yo...

It is time for the Evil Reviewer anecdote to which I alluded in a post last week. Colleagues and I submitted a manuscript about our Transfo...

Some journals ask authors for a list of possible reviewers, and some also ask for a list of reviewers to avoid. Are these lists useful to ed...

Why review manuscripts? Reviewing can be a deeply unsatisfying experience if you end up mired in bad writing, spending a lot of time making ...

It is completely understandable that some people who are new to reviewing manuscripts may lack confidence in their reviews and wonder whethe...

There are many different ways that one can be involved in the editorial aspects of scholarly journals, and one's experience with the edi...

Citation index considerations aside, have you made any publication decisions specifically because you wanted to increase your number of publ...

This spring, I have to refresh my ethics training, a ritual that is annoying mostly because the university makes it so extremely difficult f...

When I was a graduate student, I wrote a few papers that only involved other graduate students; no faculty were involved in these papers, an...