academic publishing

The importance of the article title: another interesting post from ‘The thesis whisperer’

16/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This post looks at the implications of choosing different titles for your article. It also quotes some rather sobering statistics: of the 50 million or so journal articles that are estimated to be circulating out there, most are never cited.

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Are academic journals becoming obsolete?

08/04/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

An interesting article on the continuing debate about the role and future of academic journals. Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History by Jason Schmitt It does seem to me a bit of a vicious circle. The only publications that ‘count’ are those published in peer review journals and yet the knowledge that they share is only available to an elite few […]

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