11 Reasons Why Research Papers Are Rejected
At Cell, Nature and Science, out of every 100 submissions received, merely three make it through the editor’s review and then peer review. In other words, rejection rates in these journals are as high as 97 percent! Even at journals where screening is comparatively relaxed, acceptance rates rarely exceed 40 percent. Rejection is common in […]
The 4-Step Guide That Will Get Your Research Published
You’ve spent months and years working on your research project, sometimes sacrificing a good night’s sleep and, often, backing out of events you really wanted to go to. Finally it’s time…to get your research published! The scholarly publishing industry is huge and there are thousands of journals for researchers to choose from. However, given the scary […]
5 Tools to Improve Your Research Writing Skills
If you are a researcher, you need top-notch research writing skills. Even if you have been writing research papers for years, you can still benefit from technology’s advancements and publish research that is more legible and concise. While many researchers want to write better, they realize that it’s not really in their best interest to pursue that route. They’d […]
How to write a research paper abstract?
Abstract. Those 300 words that argue why someone should take your paper seriously. Those 300 words that convince the world why months of your research matters. Those 300 words that let people decide whether to read your paper further or not. An abstract is one of the most read parts of a research paper. And […]
4 Common Research Writing Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
It is disappointing to see authors who, after putting in so much of time and effort into conducting their research, make peace with their work being judged based on styling or linguistic errors, rather than its scientific merit. Successful researchers understand that communicating your research effectively is as important as conducting solid scientific research. If […]
5 Reasons why Professors are Moving Away from Manual Formatting
Managing courses, working with graduate students, do ground-breaking research, contributing to committees. And by the way, teach for more than 20 hours a week!. No wonder why a professor wouldn’t want to put any time and emotional energy into a slavish activity. We spoke to a lot of professors and people who work in the […]
Choosing the Right Journal – A Comprehensive Guide for Early-career Researchers
Put together six months to one year long wait times of journals with crazy high rejection rates and you will know why it is so crucial for you to think through your decision of choosing the right journal. As early-career researchers, where you choose to publish your work will impact your career advancement, funding opportunities […]
How to become good at academic research writing?
As researchers, we spend years of our life building our research. But then when it comes to academic research writing, many of us still struggle. Writing your research effectively is one of the critical steps in getting your paper accepted. Research communication is more than aggregating results and ideas in one place. A good research paper […]
Top reasons for research paper rejection and what you can do about it?
A quick conversation with any academic, you will know how common research paper rejection by journals is. In spite of stories such as nobel winning papers getting rejected, research paper rejection still hurts. Image credits : Onsizzle At Typeset.io, we talk to researchers and publishers every day in our journey to build the easiest and simplest research writing platform. […]
Top 11 international Biology journals — a Template guide
MS Word, LaTeX templates and author guidelines This post is of a series of blogs with links to Word, LaTeX templates and author instructions of top journals around the world in more than 25 core subjects in academia. Getting started with your research paper formatting Writing a successful research paper is more than just communicating your […]