by Esther van de Vosse | Jul 30, 2023 | Publishing
Do you want to find out how long a journal takes from submission to acceptance and publication? To figure this out, you select a number of their recent publications and look up this information either on the PDF – where dates of submission, acceptance, and...
by Esther van de Vosse | May 30, 2023 | Publication
Did you ever have a disagreement over authorship? Or over the order of the authors? Here are some guidelines and pointers on how to prevent disputes. Who deserves authorship? Authorship of articles has important academic, social, and financial implications....
by Esther van de Vosse | May 19, 2023 | Research
Almost as often as invitations to submit manuscripts to predatory journals, I receive invitations to attend predatory meetings, and you probably receive them as well. So what exactly are predatory meetings, and how do you know whether a meeting is real or organized by...
by Esther van de Vosse | Dec 12, 2022 | Publication, Research
As a scientist, one of the criteria your success is measured by is, whether you like it or not, the number of times your publications are cited. It is reflected in your h-index. For instance, an h-index of 10 means that ten of your articles have each been cited at...
by Esther van de Vosse | Nov 22, 2022 | Publishing
You undoubtedly know that most scientific articles about health research have this basic structure: introduction – methods – results – and – discussion, or IMRaD for short. Sometimes the results are placed after the discussion, but otherwise, this order is pretty much...
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