Publishing is midwifery — mostly unglamorous, with many hours spent hunched over manuscripts. While book and journal editors tend to be self-effacing helpers, they have a strong sense of what needs to ...

The editor-in-chief of an academic journal said he had been fired for sharing a satirical article published by The Onion about people dying in Gaza facing backlash for not condemning Hamas. Michael ...

Earlier this month, the editors at the linguistics journal Syntax publicly announced their resignations in response to changes to the manuscript-handling process imposed by its publisher, Wiley. “We ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. What keeps journal editors up at night? Inclusion issues, along with plagiarism and other kinds of ...

Just as a prospective surgeon might study medicine with aplomb only to learn that academic prowess doesn’t necessarily translate to success with a scalpel, researchers often learn that their success ...

Some law schools do not offer money or credits to students who run law reviews Students who need to earn money while in law school are shut out, ABA resolution says Aug 8 (Reuters) - Law schools ...

An editor or reviewer can have an outsize impact on the career of a scholar, particularly in the early stages. The stakes can be high for an author. A negative review or edit can set back a research ...

Academic editors at one of the largest multidisciplinary journals tend to accept manuscripts from previous collaborators an average of 19 days faster than other papers, a new study has found. The ...

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To determine the representation of women among scientific journal editors - key players in the scientific community who have the final say about what papers get published - a team led by NYU Abu Dhabi ...

Neal H. Hutchens works for the University of Kentucky. After the students published the article online the following day, the board, which includes Columbia Law School faculty members and alumni, had ...