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Should the contribution of a publication consultant be acknowledged?

This post was also posted in LinkedIn. We have just had an article accepted in Science and Engineering Ethics which questions the need for publication consultants. Or, at least, if their services are used their contribution should be recognised either by being an author on the paper or by stating what their contribution was in […]

Why do researchers not read the aims and scope of a journal?

I also published this post on LinkedIn. I am the editor-in-chief of a journal (not the journal you see here, that is a (very nice) public domain image from 1869) and, as such I see a lot of submissions. One of the biggest frustrations I face is when researchers submit papers that are simply not […]

Google Scholar

I guess that most people are aware of Google. It is so well known that it is almost a verb now; if not so already – a bit like hoover.Most people will also be aware of other Google tools such as maps and blogs (indeed this is a blog that I set up through Google). […]