Amin Bredan

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Manuscript with journal for two years despite six positive reviewer comments due to delays and journal incompetence: How to resolve this?

I am trying to help a friend resolve a problem I have never encountered as an author or as a journal editor. The manuscript was transferred to a journal belonging to Elsevier in December 2018. It...

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Is this multistage sampling approach at all valid?

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Is it really correct to write "severe phenotype" or "mild phenotype"?

Expressions such as "severe phenotype" are common in the literature, but I believe that is twisted jargon, as is “severe genotype.” I edit a lot of papers, and I always change the expression to...

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Procedure for indexing journals in Scopus

I'm preparing a brief lecture on the procedure of applying to Scopus for the indexing of a journal. I have the pre-selection procedure fully covered from the Scopus website. But information on the...

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Indexing requirement for geographic diversity of editorial board

I have always understood that this geographic diversity means different countries. My reasoning is that if one is talking about board members from different academic institutions in the same...

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Defining and identifying novelty

I am planning a presentation about research novelty for MS students in the health/medical/biological fields in my home country. My emphasis will be on differentiating between adding knowledge and...

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Adding hints to a validated questionnaire to over a validated questionnaire

I am about to use a well validated questionnaire in a survey. Testing on a few people in the target population shows inability to understand some questions because of (1) language barrier or (2)...

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