This post describes the hidden processes that take place before an article appears in an academic journal.
What happens to an article after it has been submitted to a journal?
Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly
What can we learn from bad feedback?
Reviewing your supervisor’s work?
There was a blog post recently over at Peer Review Watch, reporting on a small scale survey among postgraduate students in City University London, regarding their views on peer review. In one of the questions, participants were asked how they would feel about providing peer review for papers submitted by their supervisors. The responses, I am afraid, …
Reading Digest (23-29 December)
Predictably, this has been a relatively quiet week in terms of academic news. Still, here the weekly round up of notable articles, posts and stories that I came across: Cracking down on knowledge sharing The first story that caught my attention this week was about everybody's favourite publisher: it appears that Elsevier is on a …
On Likert scales, ordinal data and mean values
Some thoughts about how to deal with a common statistical mistake.
