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Open Science 2.0: Building Understanding in an AI-Mediated World
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Scholarly Kitchen Chef Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, and Gareth Dyke. Maria is a physiologist turned consultant, helping scientists transmit the core message uncovered from their data and disseminate new knowledge quickly. Gareth serves as Academic Director at ReviewerCredits, Sales Director at 4Evolution, and is a co-founder of Sci-Train.
The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Scholarly Kitchen Chef Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke, and Yanli Wang. Ning is the founder and CEO of TopEdit Author Services. Gareth is a Consultant specialising in scholarly markets and researcher networks in China and Central Asia, and is a co-founder of Sci-Train. Yanli is the Publishing Service Director at TopEdit. Part 1 is available here.
The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Scholarly Kitchen Chef Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke, and Yanli Wang. Ning is the founder and CEO of TopEdit Author Services. Gareth is a Consultant specialising in scholarly markets and researcher networks in China and Central Asia, and is a co-founder of Sci-Train. Yanli is the Publishing Service Director at TopEdit. Part 2 will be available tomorrow.
Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Scholarly Kitchen Chef Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, and Gareth Dyke. Maria is a physiologist turned consultant, helping scientists transmit the core message uncovered from their data and disseminate new knowledge quickly. Gareth serves as Academic Director at ReviewerCredits, Sales Director at 4Evolution, and is a co-founder of Sci-Train. In a world where information is abundant and instantly generated, what becomes scarce?
Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers - The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke, and Maria Machado. Ashutosh is the Vice President of Growth & Strategy at Integra. Gareth is a researcher, author, and scholarly communications consultant. Maria is a physiologist turned consultant, helping researchers publish their findings quickly. Reviewer credit to Chef Dianndra Roberts.
Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science - The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Khalid Saqr and Gareth Dyke of the Thomas Kuhn Foundation. Khalid is a fluid dynamicist, academic, and deep-tech expert. Gareth is an accomplished researcher, author, and journal manager with over 380 peer-reviewed publications. In every generation, progress depends on one simple but radical idea: That we can understand ourselves better and act on that understanding. Nations have done it through democracy. Economies have done it through statistics.
Guest Post — Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is 'Peer Reviewed'? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality - The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Gareth Dyke, Academic Director at ReviewerCredits, Sales Director at 4Evolution, and co-founder of Sci-Train., and Ashotosh Ghildiyal, Vice President of Growth & Strategy at Integra. Jeff Bezos once shared a valuable perspective: people frequently ask him what will change in the next 10 years, but rarely what will stay the same.
Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era: Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2025
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Maryam Sayab, Roohi Ghosh, Gareth Dyke, and Maria Machado, Co-chairs of the Peer Review Week Committee 2025. Peer Review Week (PRW) serves as an annual, global moment to celebrate, challenge, and evolve the vital practice of peer review.
Unlocking scientific potential through dual degrees in Kazakhstan’s higher education system
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Unlocking scientific potential through dual degrees in Kazakhstan’s higher education system Komekbayev, Yermek [1] ; Kurmangaliyeva, Dina [1] ; Dyke, Gareth John [2] [1] NPJSC “S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University” [2] Debrecen University Localización: Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication, ISSN 2709-7595, ISSN-e 2709-3158, Vol. 5, Nº. 2 (In Progress), 2025 Idioma: inglés Enlaces Texto completo Resumen Objective.
The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by the Co-Chairs of this year’s Peer Review Week Steering Group. Roohi Ghosh is the Ambassador for Researcher Outreach, Engagement, and Success at CACTUS. Maria Machado is a scientific reviewer, blogger, and independent publishing consultant at Stories4Sci. Gareth Dyke is the Academic Director at Reviewer Credits. Maryam Sayab is a Director of Communications at the Asian Council of Science Editors.
Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”
We're delighted to reveal the eagerly awaited theme for this year's Peer Review Week, Innovation and Technology in Peer Review. The post Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review” appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
A Brief Guide to Birdwatching in the Age of Dinosaurs
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs? If you stumble upon a time machine, remember to bring your binoculars. Birdwatching is a popular hobby today, with an around in the UK alone, and in our modern world there are a staggering 11,000 species of birds to spot.
The logical structure of a STEM research paper
The goal of this blog article is to provide an easy-to-follow guide, a template, for writing a clinical research article (STEM). We will discuss each of the main sections in turn, following the basic – and familiar – IMRAD article structure, but with modifications specific to clinical research (IMRAD = IMRAD = Introduction, Materials, Results and Discussion). Let’s start off by thinking a little more about clinical research.
Tips for Data Presentation: One of the Best Papers Ever!
And here, the paper: A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes: this is certainly true in academic papers. How can you ensure that the figures and images you use in your writing are as effective as possible at communicating your message? Here are a few suggestions that you might like to have a think about the next time you put together a paper for publication. The first, and perhaps most important, rule is: know your audience.
Get up to speed with Open Research and Open Access: What’s best for your career?
We’ve talked about the concepts of Open Research in the context of Preprints and Preprint Servers in an earlier article : The basic idea that research results, including the publications that result, should be freely available for all to see, download, read, and cite.
Tips for effective time management as an academic: Lessons from pizza
A world famous US-based pizza company rose to prominence in the 1970s because they claimed to be able to deliver to any address within a certain area inside 30 minutes of any phoned-in customer order. As a working (and very busy) academic researcher and editor, I started to think: How do I manage my time? How many tasks per day do I put off until later? I made a list: most of the things I ‘put off’ until later are boring tasks, things that I know I could just do tomorrow.
Peer Review and You: Build Your Career With A Friend In Disguise
Recently did a webinar on peer review. Managing the process with a friend in disguise! For many people, peer review is an tough process: You get out the other end with your paper accepted, or not, feeling like you’ve been through the wringer. It should not be like this: Peer review should be a positive, career-enhancing process.
The journey of research writing: Practice makes perfect, in baby steps 🍼
Could not load video. Share How do I get started writing an academic paper? 14 tips for success Before beginning to write, THREE things are needed: A message, your audience (= target journal), and a structure for the writing. Structure comes from your target journal and a quick re-cap of some key things to know about article contents. Tips for success. Here’s a helpful summary from Mohamed N. Sharafeldin, a young researcher based at Mansoura University in Egypt (thanks!).
Don't wait! Communicate (with editors)
Welcome to one of the most common questions we are asked in workshops and webinars. Sadly, researchers are often scared or nervous about communicating with journal editors once they’ve made their submission. But they also want to know about updates on the status of their paper, especially if they can see (via the online submission system) that nothing has changed for a good few weeks. “I’ve been waiting for news on my submitted paper for months. Nothing has changed on the online submission system.
Publishing ethics: A quick guide for academic authors
We all want to get our research papers written up and published in the best journals possible, as fast as possible, and with the minimum of trouble. You can’t just write up and submit anything though: there are rules to follow, ethical rules. These apply for both conducting research and writing up papers for publication.
To ‘review’ or not ‘to review’: That is the question
One of the more common kinds of papers we write as academics are so-called ‘review papers’. In addition to regular peer-reviewed research articles, of course. Colleagues very often ask about ‘review papers’ in workshops and advice groups. Won’t it be easier for me to write a review paper than a regular article at the start of my career? Can you give me some advice and templates to help me put together a review article?
Citation-boosting! Tips and tricks to maximize the number of times other people will read and cite your published work
We write papers and submit them for publication in peer-reviewed journals as academic researchers in order to (i) advance the state of knowledge in our field and (ii) enhance our own careers. Be honest: Which of these two motivations is most important for you? Want to write a highly cited paper? Share These two reasons are the fundamental motivations for publishing academic research: We want colleagues to both read and cite our work in their own papers in the future.
Planning your next publication: 3 quick and easy steps
Share Scott and Gareth discuss publication planning in three steps: Journal selection Outlining your paper Steps for writing My motivation is to help colleagues around the world write and publish academic papers effectively. The content on this blog is aimed at doing this: To help you achieve your potential writing and publishing your work in the best possible international journals.
What are 'Preprints' and 'Preprint Servers' for research? Accelerate your publishing
Michele AW (formerly EiC at Research Square) addresses common concerns about preprints A preprint is a research article draft completed prior to publication that is then publicly shared by the author(s) prior to, or after, formal, journal-controlled peer-review but before publication. Preprints are documents that are often not typeset or built into online content.
Journal selection: It's a thorny issue, but: Do this before you start to write!
One of the trickiest issues in academic publishing is selecting a suitable journal for your research. Sadly, in my experience, this step is all too often left until the very end of the process: the work is done, field data collected (perhaps), experiments conducted (perhaps), analysis performed and the research is all written up for publication. Where to send the paper? A new survey, just published, that was performed by the Think. Check.
Is it acceptable in academic publishing to submit two (or more) papers on different topics to the same journal?
Yes! You are free to submit as many papers as you wish to the same journal so long as they are different, the content does not significantly overlap, and the articles don’t contradict one another. What do we mean by ‘different’? Think papers that deal with different experiments, topics, or questions so that the works do no overlap and could therefore be regarded as ‘duplicate’ publications.
Tips & tricks for communicating with journal editors and peer reviewers 🚀
Writing and publishing academic papers can be very confusing. Most researchers write up a paper, then select a journal, and then submit. Then they sit back and wait for something to happen, often for months and months. This is the WRONG APPROACH. Editors are there to ease the publication process and you should talk to them. Select a Journal BEFORE you start to write. Check out this WEBINAR recording, a collaboration with the MARS Research Hub.
Writing for Acceptance: Tips and Tricks for Successful English Writing
Successful English academic writing is a skill, not a talent. You can learn from all those researchers who have come before you. Editing and Author Services companies like Edanz and AJE edit thousands of articles for researchers each week. This means that we are aware of the most common mistakes authors tend to make when writing. Share
Starting to write an academic article: Things to know and do
It’s often much easier to come up with ideas for research projects and to carry them out than it is to write the work up at the end and get it published in a decent journal. This is especially the case when writing in English if this is your second (or third, or fourth) language. How to get started? What to do first? How to overcome ‘writer’s block’? Did you ever find that your just sitting in front of your computer, getting nowhere, making no progress, not writing any down words?
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How did the turtle get its shell? Fossil discovery gives us a clue
The evolutionary history of turtles has always been a source of controversy in vertebrate palaeontology. When we give anatomy lectures at my university, we often tell students that “turtles might as well have come from outer space”. This is because a lack of fossils showing intermediate stages in their evolution is making it hard to trace their origins. But now scientists have discovered a 240m year-old turtle fossil that could begin to unravel the enigma.
Ultraviolet light illuminates the avian nature of the Berlin Archaeopteryx skeleton
Abstract The question of whether the iconic avialan Archaeopteryx was capable of active flapping flight or only passive gliding is still unresolved. This study contributes to this debate by reporting on two key aspects of this fossil that are visible under ultraviolet (UV) light.
The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion
1. Introduction Plesiosaurs were a diverse lineage of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles that attained a near global distribution in the world's oceans during the Mesozoic, 220–66 million years ago.
This fossil helps explain how snakes lost their legs
How did the snake get its slither? Ever since the crafty serpent in Genesis tempted Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, we’ve been fascinated by snakes. And, despite our interest in this animal, we have a poor understanding of how it actually evolved. But scientists have now released a new study on the fossil of a snake that appears to have lived between 100m and 146m years ago. And what’s more it had legs. The reasons we know so little about snake evolution is because there are so few fossils.
Found: Preserved dinosaur cells
The science behind the "Jurassic Park" films always seemed far-fetched, even before the latest installment, "Jurassic World," introduced the idea of genetically engineered super-dinosaurs. For one thing, finding mosquitoes that had drunk the blood of dinosaurs and then been preserved in amber for hundreds of millions of years is incredibly unlikely. But there's another more important reason: organic molecules such as proteins and DNA degrade fast after a creature's death.
Found: Preserved dinosaur cells - CNN
Gareth Dyke is a palaeontologist at University of Southampton. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news analysis and commentary. The content is produced solely by The Conversation. For one thing, finding mosquitoes that had drunk the blood of dinosaurs and then been preserved in amber for hundreds of millions of years is incredibly unlikely.
Found: preserved dinosaur cells
The science behind the Jurassic Park films always seemed far-fetched, even before the latest instalment, Jurassic World, introduced the idea of genetically engineered super-dinosaurs. For one thing, finding mosquitoes that had drunk the blood of dinosaurs and then been preserved in amber for hundreds of millions of years is incredibly unlikely. But there’s another more important reason: proteins such as DNA degrade fast after a creature’s death.
A Medium-Sized Robust-Necked Azhdarchid Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Maastrichtian of Pui (Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania)
Averianov, A.O. 2010. The osteology of Azhdarcho lancicollis Nessov, 1984 (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 314: 264–317. Averianov, A.O. 2013. Reconstruction of the neck of Azhdarcho lancicollis and lifestyle of azhdarchids. Paleontological Journal 47: 203–209. CrossRefAverianov, A.O. 2014. Review of taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironments of Azhdarchidae (Pterosauria).
A New Small-Bodied Azhdarchoid Pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Its Implications for Pterosaur Anatomy, Diversity and Phylogeny
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Darren Naish , Martin Simpson, Gareth Dyke Darren Naish, Martin Simpson, Gareth Dyke Published: March 18, 2013 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058451 Figures Abstract Background Pterosaurs have been known from the Cretaceous sediments of the Isle of Wight (southern England, United Kingdom) since 1870.
A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Implications for Azhdarchid Diversity and Distribution
Open Access Peer-Reviewed Research Article A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Implications for Azhdarchid Diversity and Distribution Mátyás Vremir, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Darren Naish, Gareth J. Dyke mail Published: January 30, 2013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054268 Featured in PLOS Collections
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