Academic Editing - Science topic

It is okay for an editor to publish in a journal they edit Only if they ensure that the publication undergoes the same scrutiny as any other. No editor would like to see their journal fail; therefore, I expect that any publication they will put across will Have to be of the utmost standards possible.

Accept those comments which are going to improve your MS and reply with evidence against those comments which are not correct

Dear,

You can define the research keywords, then using google scholar you look for articles that combine these keywords and extract the citation.

In writing the literature review, the categorization of similar articles is recommended based on methods, time, spatial, etc.

Yes, it is a norm that an editor rejects a review. But have never heard about an editor telling a reviewer that his review has been rejected.

Normally it is when the review is not of good quality.

Yes, SMEs are still the best peer-reviewer; as the peer review process involves subjecting the author's scholarly work and research to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field to check its validity and evaluate its suitability for publication.

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Kindly, see also the following link: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/08/07/improve-writing-skills

It's fine to look for mistakes and weaknesses. However, this is less important than deciding what the authors are doing right, why are they doing it the way they are, how rigorous is their approach and how important are the resulting findings. Try to make positive suggestions that would improve the work. Do not tell the authors that the work should or should not be published. Leave this decision for the editors. As reviewer, you can recommend to the editors that the work would be suitable for the journal and why.

Dear Dr Doub, do not let it discourage you. Probably you submitted it in a wrong journal. The right journal will accept it.

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You can use grammarly

First you need to be visible as a researcher. I see on your profile that you already have some publications out.

Chances are that journals will contact you and invite you as a peer reviewer.

If you have done a lot of good work as both an author and a reviewer for a particular journal they might consider you as member of the editorial board.

You could check out the Publons.com platform that fosters reviewer recognition.

Some journals allow for self-nominations such as BMC journals from Springer. https://www.biomedcentral.com/p/the-bmc-series-journals

But then again, you need to be a recognized researcher and reviewer first before you can be and should be an editor. Good luck!

It is an application with the slogan "read less, learn more". This slogan is completely against the nature of the academy. I think it's good for lazy students to prepare homework, that's all. And maybe the app could be useful for non-academic uses, such as summarizing the news feed.

The long review times can be very frustrating. What one can do is to monitor your submission, if by 6 weeks there is no indication of a reviewer, one can withdraw and send to another journal. But it is always good to check the review process of journals by checking articles that have been publish in the journal and the journal speciification before submitting a paper to a journal.

Quality assurance reviews differ from peer reviews in that the focus of the quality assurance review is on the following criteria: Consistency: Were reasonable and consistent units of measurement and generally acceptable formulas used throughout? Are the appropriate number of significant figures reported? Correctness: Were matrix-compatible methods used? Were measurements within the working range of the method? Can measurements be traced to a recognized standard or source (e.g., the National Institute of Standards and Technology)? Can calculations be verified, starting from representative raw data and proceeding to the summary data presented in the paper or report? Coherence: Do the stated conclusions follow from the data presented? Are the assumptions clearly stated? Are inconsistencies between data and conclusions discussed? Clarity: Are special terms and acronyms defined? Can a person with a general technical background in the subject understand the paper or report? Conformance: Did the study follow the test/quality assurance plan, with appropriate calibrations and other quality-control checks, audits, and data validations? If not, is there a discussion of problems? Concordance: Were data quality objectives met? Were the data quality indicator goals achieved for precision, accuracy, representativeness, comparability, and completeness?

Regarding responding to the harsh or negative peer reviewer comments, you should deal with them as you would deal with any other comment. Give a point-by-point response to the comments, mentioning whether you agree or disagree with them. If you disagree with some of the comments, provide your reasons for doing so.

I totally agree with prof. Ayman S. Al-Hussaini. It is another face of plagiarism.

follow this paper on sharing economy in distributing scarce resources:

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I think the author of a publication should be able to write a summary of the most important statements himself. Otherwise there is the suspicion that he himself has not understood exactly what his statements actually are. I doubt that a tool would be able to find these out.

I have been carrying out research on materials processing with a focus on metal matrix composites and welding processes. Top journals in our field scrapped methodologies based on ANN and design of experiments approach (Central Composite Design, Box Behnken Design, Orthogonal design, Taguchi method etc). It is very rare to find a paper using this methodology in reputed journals now a days. There are two primary reasons. They are mere tools that a researcher uses. It is not countable as original contribution to the research work. Secondly, all of these methodologies simply play around the inputted numbers. None of these tools can understand any manufacturing processes. They can not predict unexpected changes and rapid shifts in process outputs. Their prediction is limited to a narrow range of process parameters.

Its not necessary. When a major revision is submitted, the editor usually invites the original reviewers to assess if all the comments given by them are appropriately addressed. In case the original reviewer is not available for the second round, the editor invites new reviewers.

This is just in case of a major revision. If your revision was a minor one, editor may not even send the manuscript back to reviewers. If the editor finds the minor changes are made properly, he/ she will give the decision at the earliest convenience.

I would agree with Professor Edelmann's advice above. However, I think it depends on the norms in your field, the norms for the type of article your target journal publishes, the length of the article, and the type of article you are writing. My field of Social Work is completely different from yours, but my literature review would vary in length depending on the above variables. If in doubt, I would look at your target journal and see what the practice is there.

Use the heading levels automatically prepared in the home tab to assist you in the headings and sub-headings. See the screenshot attached. Click on heading 1 for a chapter. Heading 2 for sub-headings, and Heading 3 for sub-sections

Sunny Chi Lik Au I agree with Dean Whitehead (Citation isn't just a 'numbers game )

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Just to notify honestly: this thread bears perhaps a problem: dysfunctional links and, most interesting:

guessing stats (e.g. reads) aren't correct...and: at least for me:)

In Stats there are listed 12 answers but only 9 answers are displayed...

My articles are never rejected "due to poor and ineffectual language." I never hire professional writers to improve the quality of my writing. As the author of three academic or scholarly books, I proofread the galleys and page proofs, mainly because the publishing house's staff editor assigned to my book publishing project did not have specialized knowledge of the content. I am blessed to be able to publish books, chapters, essays, and articles in my native language, which is English, in a country where English is the official language.

After I earned the Ph.D. degree and taught for three years, I successfully completed a College of Engineering summer course designed for post-Ph.D. faculty members seeking certification in Teaching Technical and Professional Writing primarily in courses enrolling upper-division and graduate students majoring in engineering, business, sciences, pre-law and social sciences, and education.

English-As-a-Second Language (ESL) is a separate course of studies. ESL courses are designed for students who are first tested and then required to take appropriate courses offered by the ESL Department before they are allowed to take required courses offered by the department in which they are interested, whether to enroll in courses or to complete a two-year associate degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctoral degree.

As an administrative director of a university writing program, I strongly recommended that undergraduate and graduate-level students demonstrate their proficiency in English via the ESL programs. Most academic departments require transcript evidence of proficiency in English. Graduate students are required to do all of their written assignments without help. Post-graduate employment opportunities are restricted if a job candidate is unable to read, write, and speak English with a high level of proficiency. A scientist who is worth his or her salt typically works hard to achieve the highest level of competency in writing research articles without resorting to "professional writing services."

A free online resource for finding abbreviations for journal names is

https://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp

Some journals have changed their names over time. This tool also allows you to trace these name changes.

Pl refer to :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJjZvIA4Kw

In my laboratory the first authors was always the one who did most of the work. The scientific value of the content is more important than the number of co-authors. In more complex subjects the long list of co-authors is very often due to a narrow collaboration with different laboratories having complementary skills. There is no magic formula for the number of authors, all depends on the complexity of the subject and the multiple collaborations with others laboratories.

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Best Regards Muhammad Adnan

From my perspective, web of science (WOS) is better than SCOPUS. WOS journals are more strict in the peer-to-peer review process because they seek to publish high standard research papers. Personally, I have found that all WOS journals in my research field are indexed by SCOPUS but NOT vice versa.

Of course! every good writer should be conscious of the way to attract and sustain the interest of his readers. Syntax, Words, Phontetics, Morphology, Rhetoric give many opportunities to do so. No need to be linguist to have those ways at one's hand. Just pay attention to the rythm of sentences and clauses.

Hi,

The latest studies in any subject are indexed in Google Scholar. The next best thing is to search a relevant database in your research area. You may try locating new material on ArXiv, which is a preprint database for physics , mathematics , computer science and other sciences. This repository is free on the net and you could locate there material before it is published in a formal journal.

A tricky question. For me, it depends on many different things. If I have all data collected it can take at least 2 weeks, as after writing an article I usually put it aside.

It may be be due to the common sense of the human being to do his best in talking and reading but not writing....

Of course it is possible. Click 'V' symbol and then click 'Edit'. Once you have edited your answer click 'Save Answer'.

I use Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research:

How a reviewer is selected by an Editor? The Editor first looks at the references cited by the author. If it includes name or names of one or two persons who have recently published a paper in an peer reviewed Journal, the job of the Editor becomes simple. He normally selects these persons as reviewers. Otherwise, because of a good network between the Editor and other well known academicians, the Editor may select one of academicians from his network. Sometimes, the Editor may reject the paper by himself if the contents of the paper are of poor quality or the paper does not fall under the scope of the Journal. Alternatively, in rare cases, if the author is a well known person and an authority on the subject, the Editor may accept the paper without referring to any reviewer. Even if one of the reviewer's reject the paper, the Editor decision to accept or reject the paper is final. The Editor may give the reviewer who rejected the paper an option to publish his comments as a Note or Letter.

I think you can use the following link:

Regards.

Dear Muhammad,

The abstract of a paper lets people quickly determine if they want to read the entire publication or not.

The abstract should have the following 5 pieces : introduction, problem statement, procedures, results & conclusions.

Since it is short, each section is usually only one or two sentences long. Consequently, every single word is important to conveying your message.

Best regards.

Hello Samantha,

it depends on several things, including who is funding the research, where you intend to publish and your epistemological stand point. See Ramalho et al, 2015

In classic GT, the lit review is supposedly done later in analytic process and material is taken up in discussion section. Meanwhile, even inter-disciplinary journals may retain 'quant' leanings so GT articles often follow the prevailing format with lit review comprising or coming after intro or reflected in background, methods and discussion sections e.g. Pitney & Ehlers, 2004,

In studies taking a social construction or post-modern stand point, the methods of grounded theory, when/if applied, become part of an analytic strategy for theorizing about emergent phenomena rather than an approach to formal theory-building (see e.g. Adele Clarke - situational analysis). Sometimes GT may be applied as part of a mixed qualitative method project e.g. Yukawa, 2005, Story-lines: A case study of online learning using narrative analysis at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.70.4064&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Reports /articles from such studies may use a more narrative structure (beginning, middle and end) but, in any format, researcher presence, transparency and accountability is emphasized in the write-up.

So, literature drawn on to identify the gaps (silences) and contradictions that underlie the researcher's question(s) and inform selection of sensitizing concepts (see Glen Bowen, https://sites.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/5_3/HTML/bowen.html) would be cited in the 'beginning' text. Any other literature used to help explore interpretations and justifications, i.e. 'reflected on' during thematic analyses of 'primary data' (forming the 'middle') are referenced there.

Depending on topic, question, and overall strategy, documents, academic studies and other texts could also feature as primary data. But I would say this is more likely for social worlds, discourse or narrative analysis ( see Adele Clarke - situational analysis).

regards and luck,

The most efficient way to learn LaTeX is by typesetting your own documents. A good starting point is to get a sample document from a colleague and see how it is arranged. Then you may like to start modifying it and reshape it gradually to your needs.

MiKTeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiKTeX

is free platform and there are many concise user guides where the fundamentals are explained pretty well.

WinEdt

http://www.winedt.com is an inexpensive interface which simplifies typesetting.

Scientific Workplace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_WorkPlace

is a more expensive but nice interface I use for many years and I am quite happy. Sometimes I need to edit documents in WinEdt if the style is too tricky for SWP.

Good luck!

I side with Prof. Pattanayak; However, I happen to be in the same situation. I submitted an article to a Journal, paid but up till now have not heard from the editor. I have just decided to maintain my calm and let nature take it course.

This is an important question. In addition to the excellent answer given by @ Md. Sarfaraz Alam , there is a bit more to add.

Quality is the most important feature of good papers. A paper with very high quality will stand the test of time and will be remembered long after it is written. By quality, I mean that precise definitions and detailed examples are given. Appropriate definitions lead to theorems. The need for the highest quality is needed in proofs of theorems. The quality of proofs of theorems is measured in terms of concise but accurate deductions from the definitions,

relations and other theorems that precede each proof.

Quantity is definitely not an appropriate goal in writing good papers. It is better to let the size of a paper be a function of the need for narrative and examples that illustrate abstract ideas in a paper.

Sarmad - academic writing follows a number of 'standard' conventions that witers are advised to follow routinely. They are mainly based around structure. The standard structure is an introduction that identifies the scene-setting context of the main topic and identifies the main objectives of the written piece. That then leads into the 'main body' of the article. The conclusion/summary - which further articulates, explores and expands on the introductory context throuhg a more critical appraisal of the existing literaure. This involves a critical integration of the literature to support observations and claims. This is through critical comparioson, debate, analysis and sythesis of the material - which should be logical and sequential as it progresses. The article should flow well and be well sign-posted with appropriate headings. The main things to avoid in the main body centre on 'pure description' i.e. just using cited literature to 'say what things are and what they do' without critical reflection. Under or over-citation add to this - as do other structural issues such as the over-use of direct quotation, bullet points, lists etc. The main body is followed by the concluding summary which is a critical evaluation of the main outcomes arising from the main text. You did mention proof-reading as well. It's imporatnt that the final 'touch' is an accurate proof-reading to avoid typos, grammatical errors etc.

in the "example_networks" folder

Similar types of questions have been asked before - and the 'default' seems to usually come back to the fact that blind review is probably better than open review. One of the reasons that journals should employ multiple reviewers (preferably three) for each submitted manuscript is to 'filter out' the possibility of one odd or biased review. 

A SHORT GUIDE TO ETHICAL EDITING FOR  NEW EDITORS

and 

Resources for journal editors and contributors

Specifically for medical editors:

Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals*

(Updated December 2013)

It also depends on the context in which the paper has been cited: e.g. consider these 3 options:

1) This topic has been studied by A (2012), B (2010) and...;

2) A (2012) was the first to use this method. Our paper is based on this method;

3) Some authors (for instance, A 2012) have mistakenly assumed/proposed that...

So, to get 10 citations of type 2) is certainly great, but type 3) is something almost no researcher wants to get.

I agree with @Dean Whitehead and like to add the following:

It depends on the committee deciding. However, if I have to make a decision, I would prefer the more cited paper regardless of the impact factor in which that article has been published.    

@Giang, this question is worth being tagged with some of the ESL topics, e.g. 'ESL mentoring'.

I agree! It is difficult to assess the scholarship and intellectual quality of a publication unless one is extremely familiar with the field. Administrators are rarely able to make that judgement, but find an impact factor a convenient numerical measure. Such is quite perverse because it is inaccurate. Striving for a high score in recent decades is responsible for unreasonable stress on academics. Deeply specialised topics in unfashionable fields may naturally generate few or modest citations but can still come from a very respected intellect. The reason why some manuscripts appear as they are, or appear at all, is because even 'expert' reviewers have not scrutinised the manuscript adequately. In any case it is difficult to assess an individual's contribution to many multi-author publications.