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Peer-review platforms
Peer review is the process of specialists in a specific field evaluating research or academic work. It's an essential part of the publishing process because it allows journals to publish only papers that meet their scope and quality requirements. Based on its methodology and theory, each journal has...
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Post-Publication Peer Review
Post-publication peer-review: What is it? Can it improve science and publication? What are the benefits? Drawbacks?
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Journal Publishing
A Journal Publishing Hub is a platform that serves as a central location for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to find information and resources related to scholarly journal publication. It can offer various functionalities, including: Journal listings and directories: Search for journals acr...
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Publishing in peer-reviewed journals
Critical discussion of current practices in publishing in peer-reviewed, scientific journals--experiences, critiques, suggestions for improving the practice, the goal of this practice, and how did we get to this point in the first place?
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Ethical problems in academic peer review
Innovative research often challenges established doctrines and encounters resistance from peer reviewers and established scholars. It's crucial to acknowledge that many established scholars align themselves with mainstream theories not necessarily due to genuine conviction, but to protect their prof...
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Publish Beginnings
Hi everyone! My name is Neil Morte and I am a brand new Scientific Engagement Specialist for Peeref. As a budding researcher and epidemiologist, I am curious to hear about research and publishing experiences in different fields and areas especially at the beginning of your careers, and trying to com...
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Ask Me Anything Forum - Dr. Clark Holdsworth (Scholarly Publishing)
I'm Dr. Clark Holdsworth and this is my Ask Me Anything Forum. I have an extensive background in scholarly publishing where I've advised authors, editors, reviewers, administrators, and publishers on a huge variety of issues in scholarly communications. The Live AMA will occur on Tuesday September 1...
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Decentralized science
The Open Access movement has made an effort to make published research publications freely accessible. However, the majority of the aforementioned problems still exist. Decentralized technologies, like blockchain, present a chance to experiment with new models for scientific production and dissemina...
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Available as a Reviewer
I am actively seeking new opportunities as a reviewer in the field of Optics and Photonics. As a researcher with a focus on Plasmonic Devices, Plasmonic sensors, Photonic Crystal Fiber, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. I have published 04 papers in renowned journals (Optics Express, Results in Physi...
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MDPI Topics
MDPI runs Topics, which are collections of papers that concentrate on specific multidisciplinary topics in two or more MDPI journals. Topics allow authors from different research areas to unite around one theme, describe multidisciplinary applications, and develop new ideas. Topics are curated and l...