While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.
Scholars as well as universities, research foundations, and government organizations, are encouraging journals to take steps to make their content more accessible and engaging. As a result, the notion of brand-name journals is changing.
The role of the journal editor is changing fast. What was once a job centered on managing peer review has evolved to include new steps to ensure journal articles reach their intended audience.
Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues are leading the charge in the open access movement with the launch of game-changing OA journal Discrete Analysis.
Check out the peer review systems these three journals decided on and the benefits of each.
Could the noteworthy actions of Lingua's editors spark a revolution of journals declaring independence from corporate publishers?
When handled well, R&Rs don't have to be painful for authors or cause lengthy holdups in your publishing process.
Why is it that so many scholarly publications appear devoid of evidence of research failures? Scholars continue to question an apparent trend in positive outcome bias and how to address it.
From your editorial board's vantage point, all the benefits of a scholarly journal management system are plain to see. But how can you make your stakeholders feel the same?
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