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Focus and Scope
This blog is focused on helping academics, my peers, to get their research published in journals. How? By doing what I know to do and what I love: researching, writing and spreading my knowledge to...
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Publish or perish? The curse of the researcher
The idea of this post is to think about the need and urgency to publish in journals for an academic. To begin with, publishing regularly in good journals (peer-reviewed journals, covered in relevant...
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Start your love story with journals
Whether you’re completely new to publishing, or are getting back onto the publishing scene after a break, there are a few things you should bear in mind before getting started. After a thorough review...
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Journal owners, you make the publishin’ world go round
To understand a journal and have an opportunity to be published, besides knowing it well (its editors, the editorial line, what kind of articles it publishes or if it charges fees to authors), I find...
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Worst practices for misconduct authors
There are several ideas going around in my head regarding the reasons for the growing plagiarism in academic publications and that someone is willing to get into this game for money: There is great...
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Tomorrow belongs to cites
Over the last decades, journal rankings moved from something only a few librarians cared about to something that is now critical to the future of professors and researchers. The same thing could happen...
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Gaudeamus: 1.000 profs and editors building a better academic world
Let me use the poem Desiderata (Max Ehrmann, 1920) with other words: The world is full of trickery. But let this not blind us to what virtue there is; many profs strive for high ideals, and everywhere...
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I am happy to be a university professor
This week I would like to share with you the personal opinion of professors about our work, our profession, how we see ourselves. I summarize the responses, collected in the social networks. LEARNING...
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Teaching or research: what goes first?
Being a university professor is very complex and demanding. Professors generally are required to perform the following activities: Teach, conducting lectures and seminars; and mentor students. Perform...
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A professor’s self-examination
Now that the academic year is over and I am rested and recovered, it is time to do some self-assessment of how it went and to outline a plan for the coming year. This is a suggestion of questions for a...
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