Why do some scientific journal editors, following acceptance, ask authors to please add more papers from that very journal to the reference list?

I have a recent observation from a scientific journal, in which the editor asks the authors to try to add more papers from the journal in question into the reference list, before the paper goes to...

06 July 2018 3,544 55 View

*How* do you decide where to submit your latest manuscript?

When deciding on where to send your new manuscript, what are the criteria involved? How do you weigh these criteria against each other? Is fast publication more important than to go for the more...

09 October 2016 2,772 18 View

Do you agree that scientific articles these days often have much more shallow literature reviews than they used to have?

I am a researcher in ernest since 1988, a reviewer for scientific journals and conference proceedings volumes since 1989, a published author since 1992, an author of scientific books since 1994,...

31 December 2015 270 18 View

How do we solve the problem with the unethical selection of authors of a paper?

06 July 2015 6,347 23 View

Are we all honest and objective as authors?

05 June 2015 6,802 4 View

Can you share your worst examples of predatory journals, and their doings?

Science publishing is very lucrative. These days, many of us are also faced with the necessity to publish in open-access journals, and have to seek special grants in order to be able to pay...

01 February 2015 8,507 1 View

The book "The Traffic Assignment Problem" is very soon available!?

11 December 2014 3,329 2 View

"The purpose of our research is insight, not numbers" - but does anyone care anymore?

08 September 2014 3,461 5 View

Is there a good general principle for the ordering of authors of a paper?

More and more frequently I discuss the issue of the ordering of authors with my co-authors. It would be interesting to hear how the reasoning goes among the population at RG, so please share your...

05 June 2014 1,556 4 View

Why the phrase "the model and its algorithm", when referring to an optimization problem?

I saw this phrase a lot many years ago, and now at RG I witness again the phrase "the model and its algorithm". It always refers to the notion that for every model there is a unique methodology to...

01 January 1970 6,569 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

Would adding books published in Lambert Publishers increase my RG impact?

There are some books published in LAP. Shall I add it to the RG?

02 March 2021 2,753 1 View

Which period is considered as study period in research?

Is that starting from proposal development to result writeup or just from data collection to result writeup and reporting (publishing)?

28 February 2021 910 2 View

What role should journals play in leading academic fields?

A recent paper by Yeung and Thomas (2021) on journals in event management opens up an interesting debate on the role of journals as academic fora. They demonstrate that event management publishing...

28 February 2021 3,494 6 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration forms?

Warm greetings! My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology focusing on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample (Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 3,612 3 View

Are we using now IT technology effectively?

I discover now two my papers, which are more then 30 years old and which are describing something, what was done in years 1985 -...

21 February 2021 5,008 3 View

How to decrease the time for publication of paper in a journal ?

It takes a lot of time in publishing the paper in the journal, from few months to a year so how one can able to decrease the time for publication.

17 February 2021 2,997 14 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

OmniScriptum Publishing Group?

Hello, Has anybody published with OmniScriptum Publishing Group. I got an email from them. The emails claims the editor is from the group but the email is signed out by lambert academic...

08 February 2021 5,611 3 View

Professional editing and proofreading services?

08 February 2021 7,901 6 View