Academic Writing - Science topic

Please who has an opportunity for a Postdoctorate fellowship in Language education, ESL, Artificial intelligence, Language Entrepreneurship, academic writing, Research productivity, Higher education, etc?

Thank you.

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Tough language (Aristotle's Ethos) is the language of the novel. It tends to be written in a first-person (I, me, mine, we, us, our) narrative; it is subjective and informal or intimate, and Aristotle would call it (Aristotle’s Ethos). It is the language of the novel. Frederic Henry in Ernest Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms uses tough language.

Sweet language (Aristotle’s Pathos) tends to be written in the second person (you, your); it tends to be subjective and intimate, and sometimes “pathetic.” It is the language of seduction; it is also the language of the advertisement. Aristotle would call it “Pathos.” Walker Gibson calls Sweet language AROMA (Advertising Rhetoric of Madison Avenue). Sweet language is listener-oriented in an attempt to deduce listeners into buying products they don’t want or need. Stuffy language (Aristotle’s Logos) is the language of academe.

Where tough language is I-oriented, and Sweet language is you-oriented, stuffy language is it-oriented. Stuffy language is highly grammatical and highly formal. Infinitives, gerunds, present and past participles, nominative absolutes, perfect, progressive, and passive constructions normally occur only in stuffy language. Because it is so objective and straight forward, it tends to be dull—stuffy.

Comment on the three styles of discourse: Tough (the novel), Sweet (the advertisement), and Stuffy (the language of academe).

For example, if the maximum requirement is 6 pages of main content, but my paper only has 5 pages.

as a researcher who spent years developing my writing and my intellect. tools like ChatGPT makes depressed and devastated. now anyone could easily do what I am doing, even if they make the same effort. however, it is important to recognize the changes that tools like ChatGPT would create in academic writing fields. so we can be better prepared and adapt to it properly.

In the numerous research papers I have read, both "processing parameters" and "process parameters" have been widely used. My research field is metal additive manufacturing, and "processing parameters" (or "process parameters") encompass factors such as laser power, scanning speed, hatch spacing, and more. I have observed that even within the same paper, these terms are often used interchangeably. Additionally, I was once advised by a reviewer to use "processing parameters" when describing what I had initially termed as "process parameters." To this day, I am still unable to clearly distinguish the specific usage scenarios for these two terms. Are they, in fact, the same?

What do people think about blind review vs. review internally to an editorial board (where the editors are experts)? I have heard that the former is considered a "superior" form of peer review, but that both are considered academic publications/journals and kinds of peer review. Is this true?

Note: I am a PhD student in theology, just in case field/background matters.

If not then why other can brother?

Please 🙏 send your thoughts no needful always for citation,it is helpful where it remains

I would like to know what is the difference between the word 'impact' and 'effect' in academic writing. Is it safe to use them interchangeably or is there a disctinction between these words?

Kindly also suggest any usefull readings that elaborate on this.

Is it ok to check Plagiarism multiple times using Turnitin or any other software?

Some of my friends said plagiarism checking was allowed only twice. If we check for plagiarism a third time, it will be considered plagiarism and the data will be stored in cloud while plagiarism. Is it true?

How many times I can check my research article for plagiarism using software?

British journals in my area of expertise do not conduct peer review processes! Articles are based on stolen and copied knowledge published in the name of people that have not researched the subject at all! Does the phenomenon have anything to do with the tendency of British culture to misappropriate the treasures of other cultures or does the British Academy fulfil its scientific role in this way (and we all have to reluctantly accept its hubris)?

The use of Chat GPT or any AI language model in academic writing raises several ethical considerations that should be carefully addressed.

Here are some points to consider:

Ultimately, the ethical use of Chat GPT or any AI language model in academic writing requires critical thinking, responsible use, proper attribution, and adherence to academic integrity standards. It should be seen as a tool to assist and enhance your own knowledge and understanding rather than a substitute for your own original work.

As a research scholar, I feel that a lot of time is wasted in preparing a manuscript according to a journal format. The worst part is that if the paper gets desk rejected, then we have to prepare the manuscript in some other journal style. A lot of time is wasted in this cycle.

When the paper can be type set by the journal after getting accepted, then why dont journal allow a general free format submission.

#I_support_free_format_submission

I'd love to hear how others use AI to enhance their research efficiency.

We have been trying Khan Academy and NoRedInk but apparently, this doesn't yield many results because students don't apply the skills learnt independently and transfer them into Academic Writing. What strategies would you propose?

The development of artificial intelligence, including considering one of the many manifestations of its applications made available on the Internet such as ChatGPT, is both interpreted as a developmental opportunity and also as threats and new risks in the context of education more broadly. Already, data are emerging confirming that ChatGPT can help pass university examinations within specific courses and written examination formulas. ChatGPT writes creative essays for pupils and students, helps with book writing to generate summaries of various studies and a wide variety of texts. Consequently, ChatGPT is a major challenge in the education system. A particularly important issue is the possibility of using this tool for the automated process of generating the texts of theses with which students will pass their subjects as part of their course of study, and for generating the texts of theses 'written' by students as part of their final theses. A particularly key issue is the possible ignoring of the issue of reliable demonstration of source publications in credit and degree theses. This is because the ChatGPT also does not provide a complete list of all sources, including scientific publications, journal articles, books, etc., from which it has used, from which it has taken a certain amount of content, from which it has been inspired, from which it has taken data, etc. In addition, a particularly important challenge for education at the level of studies is the issue of the currently limited possibilities of verification by anti-plagiarism programmes of the aforementioned issue of verification of reliable use of sources, other publications and source materials by a student while writing his/her diploma thesis, including his/her bachelor's, master's, doctoral or habilitation thesis. It is therefore necessary to improve computerised platforms and anti-plagiarism programmes so that they are capable of verifying the reliability of a student's writing of a specific thesis. Within the scope of the examined reliability mentioned above, the issues of proper use of publications and source materials, proper use, i.e. without the use of plagiarism and with full indication of texts, publications and source materials in footnotes, are important. In this connection it is also necessary to appropriately update the procedures for verification of diploma theses by supervisors, i.e. research and teaching staff supervising the process of writing a diploma thesis by a student. The said appropriate updating of procedures should in particular take into account the issue of ethics of conducting research and writing the diploma thesis by the student, but also ethics in the context of the process of supervising by scientific and didactic employees the issue of writing the diploma thesis by the student. In this connection it is also necessary to carry out an appropriate update of normative provisions, including both the legal regulations functioning at the national level and also in the scope of internal, functioning in individual universities and schools regulatory normative provisions, regulations defining principles and standards of reliable writing of credit and diploma theses by students and the process of control and supervision of the issue of writing the diploma thesis by scientific and didactic employees.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this subject?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

One solution may be to build an IT anti-plagiarism system, which would also use artificial intelligence solutions analysing the degree of similarity between texts written by pupils in school essays and theses written by students in universities with texts generated by e.g. ChatGPT and concerning the same issues.

However, before such a computerised anti-plagiarism system can be used to verify essays written by students at schools and pass theses and diploma theses written by students at universities, taking into account the possible use of artificial intelligence, including e.g. ChatGPT, certain changes should be made to the rules and regulations of schools, colleges and universities, taking particular account of the author's observance of copyright, the correct use of sources and other publications, and reliable, independent editing of essays, diploma theses, including bachelor's, master's, doctoral and other theses. Besides, before such an IT anti-plagiarism system is built, other supplementary and auxiliary solutions can be applied.

Another solution may be for teachers to require pupils and students to reliably, fully, methodologically demonstrate the data sources, source publications for all specific phrases, wording, content, information, statements, for every sentence that was not written from the author's own autopsy, the author's own experience of the work, etc. used in the written essay, credit work and other work. This type of solution may also be helpful on the issue of verification of the accuracy of the writing, i.e. without the use of a ChatGPT-type tool carried out by an IT anti-plagiarism system, which will verify this issue by comparing the content of the written work with the knowledge base used by ChatGPT. Therefore, it may be necessary to make the knowledge base used by ChatGPT (currently a knowledge base created on the basis of content downloaded in 2021 from a number of selected websites) available to IT companies developing IT anti-plagiarism systems that verify the above-mentioned issue of the reliability of the written text, i.e. without the use of a ChatGPT-type tool.

Another interim solution for the period before the creation of an IT anti-plagiarism system to verify the accuracy of the writing, i.e. without the use of the ChatGPT tool, could be for teachers to require their students to prepare and carry out project work requiring the use of various aspects of creativity as an alternative to written essays, credit essays and dissertations.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Counting on your opinions, on getting to know your personal opinion, on an honest approach to discussing scientific issues and not the ready-made answers generated in ChatGPT, I deliberately used the phrase "in your opinion" in the question.

The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.

I have not used other sources or automatic text generation systems such as ChatGPT in writing this text.

Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Do you know of any good non-intrusive ways of communicating updates to your research within the ResearchGate site to mimic the project update feature?

This question arises as Researchgate will discontinue the projects feature altogether on March 31, 2023 as announced at

and this decision is apparently final.

The accessibility and discoverability of a publication may be impacted by the language in which it is written, which may have an impact on how many citations it receives. For instance, publications written in a language other than English might have a smaller potential readership and be less likely to be mentioned by academics who don't speak that language. The visibility and accessibility of non-English articles can be improved by the numerous citation databases and search engines that are built to index publications in multiple languages. Regardless of the language used for publication, the main aspect that will affect a publication's citation rates is the caliber and applicability of the research that is presented in it.

In recent years, we have been wondering about the advancement of AI in almost every field. There are plenty of concerns about the usage of AI in academic writing. Recently, I came across the efficiency of Turnitin in detecting AI-written content, and it gave surprisingly great results. Are any other tools available for such actions to avoid/understand AI-prepared content?

Is using help of ChatGPT in writing academic article against the plagiarism rules? How is this issue regulated in general?

i)What are the driving forces hitting L2 writers?

ii) What are the impacts of their cultural identities on conventionalized academic writing?

iii) How does the above affect the use of the target language in academic settings?

Please help with the above questions!

I need insight into the above question

Exciting news for researchers and academics! Leading academic publishers like #Elsevier and #Cambridge University Press have announced that researchers can use applications like #𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 for academic writing, provided that the work is original. This means that texts created using tools like #𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 and Bing can be used to accelerate the process of scientific and academic publishing, but cannot be included as authors or contributors in the publication. This is an important step forward in reconciling the role of global publishing and research with modern technological advancements. Learn more about this implicit statement on the publishers' official website in the editorial policies and scientific publishing page.

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I have seen some researchers who publish 4 to 5 articles per year but only in high impact factor journals (IF > 7.5) as well as many others who publish 20 to 30 articles per year inluding both the Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 journals as well as book chapters.

The responses are welcomed.

There seem to be growing concerns among academics across the world that AI-generated writing is a new threat to academic integrity in higher education.

There are divided opinions on the use of ChatGPT tool in academic writing. Some say it will help in improving English writing for authors who are non native English speakers. Others say it is not ethically right and will lead to blatant form of plagiarism and will kill innovative ideas and creative skills of the authors. Any comments on this from fellow researchgate members 👍🙏

Hello

What is your preferred reference in English academic writing which you may taught? The book will be helpful if has tips about language and vocabulary structure in academic paper sections and their subsections.

Thank you

God Bless you

The most venerable professors and research scholars

Your critical comments, valuable opinions, scientific facts and thoughts, and supportive discussion on how can structural grammar and IC analysis be justified in the recent pedagogical and enhancement trends in EIP for EFL adult learners.

I shall be thankful sincerely for your kind participation.

Best,

Dr. Meenakshi

I like to write one book related to mechanical engineering. I like to publish the book to the market. Please clarify my doubts.

1st doubt - Whether i can publish a book in my own hand writing (Handwriting allowed or typing only allowed)

2nd doubt - How to publish.

Thank you.

ChatGPT can be used to assist with academic writing. It is able to generate coherent and relevant texts based on previously trained language models, which can be very useful to help academics to write articles, theses and other works. It can be used to create introductions, develop arguments and conclude texts. In addition, it can be used to generate ideas for research, projects and be a valuable tool for academics.

What will be the impact of chatgpt in the academic area, especially regarding the writing process, ethical issues, creativity and intellectual property?

I'm using Turnitin Premium, and I'm having trouble with the filtering and settings. I've removed the quotes and bibliography, but how many words should be omitted from excluding sources that are less than...... words to acquire true plagiarised content? Because it can sometimes pick up on two-word scientific words like "Calibration Method," "Air Pollution," and so on. Based on your experience, what values should we set?

Are we in trouble having learned that ChatGPT can write reasonable abstracts almost better than what many researchers can do? How challenging is this to serious-minded researchers? How concerned should we be? What does the future of researchers look like? What do you think about the acceptability and credibility of ChatGPT in academic writing?

Dear colleagues, I would be very grateful for your opinion on a strange situation I recently got into. I saw that in an MDPI journal, namely Sustainability, one of my papers was cited. However, today that citation has disappeared, although the PDF version and the web version of the article still contain the correct reference. I have checked other citations, and they are still in the correct Google Scholar profile. However, it appears that only the reference to my article has disappeared. What could be the cause of this? Do you have any ideas about this situation? Thank you in advance.

With kind regards

Ibrahim

Hello, I’m writing my first thesis as part of my graduation with the topic: Design Activism. I am having problems with making my research question/statement clear and focused.

This is what I have as my current statement: Contemporary socially engaged practices have always been influenced by the past and made it their own.

( What practices of the past influenced the practices in a specific era and how did they make it their own?)

I am focusing on the eras 1960-1969, 2000-2009, and the present ( and maybe the future).

But I was wondering if this statement is clear enough, English is not my first language so I find it a bit hard when it comes to academic writing.

Also if you have interesting sources about Design Activism, and socially engaged design practices. Would you please share them with me?

Thank you in advance.

Hello, I'm currently conducting research concerning the effect of social media language on EFL students' academic writing.

Does that make my research descriptive in nature?

And I want to collect data via questionnaires and interviews, does that mean the mixed-methods approach is used?

Finally, the descriptive statistics technique (statistical analysis) is used to analyze the participants’ responses? Could you please tell me if this is accurate?

Thanks in advance.

Please, give me tips and tricks as a novice author to increase academic writing specifically in specific expertise namely English Education and others.

Also, give a strong affirmation in order to get better in writing like small research and I can upload it to the Journal.

She argues that 'when many successful scientists boast dozens, even hundreds, of research papers to their name, calls for more “quality over quantity” in publication can appear to ring rather hollow.

Thus, to ensure quality in the paper publications churned out from dozens of academic journals, she gave the above suggestion. What do you think about her suggestion? Would it improve the rigor of science or slow down the pace of scientific development?

Kindly share your interesting views on this issue. Thanks

Our scape is currently overwhelmed with physical structures that act as obstructive forces towards humanity-oriented progress. The globalised format of our cities has dominated its roots on other aspects of architecture, including education. Hence, in some schools, architectural education follows this emerging imagery of the market, and not the other way around. This has led to a critical phenomenon of poor development of architectural pedagogy, i.e. lack of individual and collective creativity.

Do you think that architectural schools should shift its methodology towards not building anymore? Should they focus more on creating open spaces and flexible structures?

I am struggling with writing up a theoretical framework for my #phd proposal. Do you have any tips, suggestions, or recommendations please?

Currently, I am looking for free-to-publish journals with an impact factor of more than 4 or 5 in food science and nutrition. It would be very helpful if anyone could suggest some good journals with free or low-cost publication processes. Thanks, anyone in advance if you provide any information or guidance.

Kindly discuss your any sort of experience or familiarity with the Scopus indexed journal titled NeuroQuantology. It will be a great deal of help for novel researcher. Thanking you in advance.

Dear All,

My current field is Epidemiology. Also, I am highly interested in the field of Nutrition Sciences and looking forward to increasing my knowledge in that.

I would be thankful if you could let me know whether there has been any recommendation beyond the relevant reading and collaborating with nutritionists in academic writing.

Kind regards,

Many problems must be faced by researchers in developing countries. For those countries that do not use English as the primary language, the researchers will encounter obstacles in their article publication in leading international journals. It is not cheap if using a international editing services, whereas most research funding does not cover it. Salaries as a lecturer or researcher are also inadequate to bear it. How can we solve this problem?

On researchgate I got notified for each citation but google scholar missed some citations.

Since all the citations belongs to Scopus indexed index journals so that must be visible in google scholar.

If anyone have any idea to add those missing citations in Google scholar then kindly guide for the same.

Regards,

Abhinav Nag

In those disciplines. Is there significant distiction among them. And is there any contrast between them in academic writing

I'm using some words in my research paper's introduction like "task compilation time," "fixation," "fixation duration," etc. I define those variables or terms in the methodology, but readers may not be able to understand them in the first place. So, how does the researcher deal with such a problem? They are not new terms or variables. In eye-tracking research, they're common terms. So, should I mention these kinds of terms in my introduction?

N.B: They're not acronym.

How can I link the arguments in the chapter of the dissertation to the dissertation question?

I mean (I am comparing the laws of state A and state B) in Chapter

If my question is does Law A provide adequate protection?

Based on what I found during my research, Laws A and B were equally protected.

So how can will be my arguments link to my dissertation Question ?

What is the best method of avoiding plagiarism when writing a publication, thesis or dissertation in academia?

Recently, I found an article that has been published in IEEE Access (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3045008), which is directly copied from a research article of ours (DOI: 10.1007/s00170-019-04213-z). A lot of figures and tables, and the text in body of the paper are same as our published paper. Moreover, most of the data are the same or have been only slightly changed and the text in the finding and discussion section is also mostly identical. We can see the same text with the same references (see the attached file).

Regarding this essential problem we sent an email to the editor handling of the paper. Then, the first author of the paper sent us an email, in which he tried to persuade us to forgive him. In fact, he confessed to committed plagiarism and asked us for mercy. Following reporting the problem to the EIC we received an email from IEEE Access as an investigation outcome as follow. "In the present case, we performed an investigation and discussed the case with the EIC, IEEE Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and myself. We believe that the article overlap is small enough that it does not warrant any further investigation."

We spent so much time on our paper, and they have just looked at our paper, modified it, and written another one. This is not fair at all. What can we do now? I would appreciate any kind of help.

Many Academician and researchers think that number, quality and citation does not matter. But another school of thought relates quality of a paper to number of citation. What can be some successful strategies to increase the number of citations?

When postgraduate students start to write their theses, they have usually published some papers from their findings. There are different points of view about citing the papers. What do you think; students can cite their papers in their theses?

Mostly, a researcher won't find it difficult to write an article, a chapter, or even a book as long as s/he has the relevant sources needed. However, in some scientific research papers / areas, to conduct a study, it requires collaboration of (an) other colleague (s) to contribute.

I believe that this has nothing to do with the value of a research paper! Because, in the one author paper, it means that the author is able to cover the entire topic based on his/her expertise and knowledge! On the other hand, in the multiple author paper, two researchers or more can work together on the same topic, each of them covers a part.

Does this have anything to do with the value of one's research paper?

What should be included in a good research proposal?

General Format of a research proposal:

Title should give a clear indication of the proposed research.

Formulate these clearly, giving an explanation as to what problems and issues are to be explored and why they are worth exploring.

Should include an outline of the various stages and corresponding time lines for developing and implementing the research, including writing up of the thesis.

... for example

Reviwer #1: Please consider using one figure (e.g., Figure B) ...

Reviwer #2: I would suggest adding a flow so the reader can have a general idea about the platform by looking at Figure B.

Hello dear researcher,

I am very eager to participate in writing part of your research, if possible, and do whatever my scientific ability allows. My favorite topics are plant nutrition, environmental stresses and other aspects of crop physiology. Thank you very much.

I would like to pursue a career as a Biomedical/Scientific communicator and that requires me to get some recognised writing experience before I apply for such a position in any company. I am a current BSc Biomedical Science student graduating next year (summer 2023) but my previous background is science-business related and at a Master's level. I do a lot of academic writing which is outside of the course-related requirements, as I like doing some research and learning more from doing so. I share my findings with work colleagues and relatives only so far and am in process of starting my blog online. Advice is greatly appreciated!

Dear researched,

I read a paper from one well known publisher. Paper is about gestational diabetees. At the age 45+ they found 35 cases of diabetes and 90 women without it. They wrote: ''Te incidence of GDM at age≥45years was as high as 38.89%.'' I would suggest 28%? What do you think?

In addition, I have some question. If something increase from 50 to 200, that is 4 times increase?

What about folds? In my opinion, folds are not same as times? The next article stated in abstract: ''neutralizing antibodies were increased by 10.3–28.9 times at 4 weeks after the booster'' and than in results ''eutralizing antibody GMTs then increased during the 4 weeks after the booster dose until day 237 by 28.9, 10.3, and 11.9-fold". Was this written correctly?

Hello, I'm currently conducting a study concerning "the effect of netspeak and textism (social media language) on students' academic writing".

I want to know if 1) the impact is positive or negative , and if 2) the target population of my study integrates this language into their academic written assignments (essays).

So, is my research design descriptive, correlational, or exploratory?

Could you help me, please ? I'm confused.

The theme of the above-noted article is comparable to this already published article: An author’s guide to mastering academic writing skills: Discussion of a medical manuscript.

I mean one is not so aware of journals in the discipline of Education and Teaching that may be suited for such scientific content? Or rather journals that bridge the gap between Education and Medicine?

There are various criteria such as high citation, high co-authorship, author reputation, high download or related factors such as publisher reputation, database credibility, journal credibility, and so on. Therefore, what is the most crucial criterion when choosing a scientific paper?

The is a new "fashion" on publishing the protocols of research. I have already published the protocol, including the full description of the materials and methods. Now, I'm preparing the paper with the results but I would like to know if I should rewrite the M&M section, write a short description of the methods, or just simply refer the readers to the previously published protocol. I don´t know what would think of a potential editor or referee if I send them to read another paper. Would you mind giving me some advice?

I am working towards my Ph.D. applications again, and I hit a wall. So, I have a pretty good idea of what I want to research, but I cannot make a clean-cut research question(s) on what I want to research! How can I approach potential supervisors to discuss my research plans with them?

Dear all

I am using the Mendeley, although there are few disadvantages on Mendeley, such as low stability (it crashed frequently), a bad manual adjustment (even when I adjust the format I want, it jumps back to the original formation of default). Some lecturers suggest I can use Endnote instead of Mendeley, but they do not give any reason. I would like to know what the advantages of Endnote are compared to Mendeley. Now, I know there are two advantages of Endnotes. First, more formats can be chosen in Endnote than in Mendeley. Second, there is no limitation for storing documents. Apart from these advantages, are there other advantages? Additionally, there is one huge disadvantage of Mendeley. It is unstable, and the output of the bibliography is not following the detail of documents on Mendeley. I am wondering whether Endnote can improve these problems and whether it is worth 80 pounds or not.

Thank you for your answers in advance.

Chen

Hello everyone

Can you share your experience with me about the literature review? How do you record the studies? How do you create a research matrix and classification the studies? What tools do you use for this purpose? , etc.

Regards

Vahid

I worked for months on writing this paper, but it's been rejected twice. It gives an alternative explanation to the expansion of the universe and gives a hint to quantum gravity, but there is no mathematics to back this idea, although it only needs some basic knowledge to understand. I've also given testable perditions to prove my point. Should I make it public or keep sending it to journals?

I've attached abstract and Introduction of my paper.

Could you please provide any tips or ideas you have for creating the finest meta analysis review on cancer? Rather than writing a review article, I'd like to begin working on a meta analysis.

regards

I intend to understand the common errors in writing Formal emails, understand the difficulties students face in academic writing. What are the common areas that students fail in academic writing? How does Online teaching impact/impair the students' academic writing Skills?

I have noticed several online postings criticizing reviewers but haven’t seen a post appreciating them. Talking more about bad reviewers can give a wrong impression to the young researchers that the majority of the reviewers are bad. Therefore, I thought of sharing my experience.

We have published over 20 papers, and of course, got several rejections. However, I haven’t encountered an unreasonable reviewer yet. A reviewer can occasionally miss a point in a manuscript, but the reviewers repeatedly asked us fair questions and provided meaningful comments.

For example, I have attached one of our recent responses to a reviewer. It can be clearly seen that the reviewer’s comments helped us to significantly improve the quality of the manuscript. That was not an isolated incident. In 3 out of our 5 latest publications, we included a statement like “The insightful comments of the reviewer are gratefully acknowledged” because we believe that the reviewers helped us to improve our manuscripts significantly.

Thank you, reviewers.

Reviewers play a pivotal role in scholarly publishing. The peer review system exists to validate academic work, helps to improve the quality of published research, and increases networking possibilities within research communities. Despite criticisms, peer review is still the only widely accepted method for research validation and has continued successfully with relatively minor changes for some 350 years (Elsevier, 2021). If you could change something to improve how the peer-reviewed process is traditionally done, what would you change?

Dear RG community,

I have been looking for journals to publish my reviews papers. However, it seems like that the « oldest » way of describing and explaining the subject in its whole idea is not working anymore as we can perfectly see on « old » papers where everything about the subject is covered and described through an exhaustive way, but well explained.

I am not sure if I am wrong, but it seems that the « new « reviews are focusing on adding a lot of references and briefly describing their results about the subject without covering what is really happening and how important the result is to understand the matter and covering the theory as the old ones used to do.

Am I wrong about this new trend or I am looking for wrong journals to publish?

A little over a month ago, I submitted a manuscript to a journal that is part of Springer. The status has never moved beyond "quality check in progress." I havent published with a journal that uses this system, so Im unfamiliar with how long this step usually takes, but a month feels a bit excessive. Is this typical?

I've reached out to the journal twice, and both times I got a canned response, telling me that "they're doing everything they can to move things along."

Hi everyone,

Some time ago I shared my scientific essay with GRIN. They offered me selling hard copy of this work via GRIN site or Amazon and pdf version to download from GRIN. I prepared pdf version of the paper and upload it, but I must admit there was inconsistency between final version active on site and pdf version that I have shared with them - problems with accurate formatting. Even if I selected for free option, little price was set up for downloading the pdf. Each one who wants to upload its own paper, has to agree with conditions, and one of them is that the paper will be active at least for 5 years under agreed conditions.

Still I have doubts if I did wrong or good sharing my essay with them. As a publisher was GRIN suitable choice indeed? What do you think? What experience do you have with this publisher?

Thanks in advance for your reply!