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Health numeracy: Tips for communicating numbers with patients and research participants
How can we help patients and research participants better navigate numbers? Here are five tips.
Tag: Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Publishing
Tips to NIH Public Access Compliance: Don’t forget to check the “NIH funding” box on forms from the journal
Congratulations! Your article has been accepted to a journal. We know this is an exciting time and there are many details to manage. One key thing to remember – If NIH funding supported the work, don’t forget to check the “NIH funding” box on the publisher’s copyright form. This lets the publisher know that the [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
Selecting a Journal for Publication – New Online Guide and Presentations Available
Recently the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) revised its instructions for authors stating that "authors have a responsibility to evaluate the integrity, history, practices and reputation of the journals to which they submit manuscripts.” The new instruction specifically calls out so-called predatory journals and decisively puts the onus on the author to be [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly Publishing Round-up May 2017
Learn about our new guide for authors to help select a journal for publication, changes in Scopus, and readings that discuss preprints, peer review, dissemination of research findings, to name a few.
Scholarly Publishing
NIH Encourages Use of Preprints and Other Interim Research Products
A new notice from the NIH (Reporting Preprints and Other Interim Research Products, NOT-OD-17-050) indicates that interim research products, including preprints, can soon be cited where other research products are cited. This includes the NIH Biosketch and Section C of the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR), among others. The change is effective for all applications [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
Selecting a Journal for Publication Class
Are you considering submitting a manuscript for publication but on the fence as to which journal to submit to?
Scholarly Publishing
Altmetric: 100 Most-Discussed Journal Articles of 2016
In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs and selected the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016. Altmetric tracks mentions of works on social media, mainstream media, blogs, and other platforms. Four of the 100 articles were authored by authors from Washington University.
Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly Publishing Round-up July 2016
Journal Citation Reports
The 2015 edition of Journal Citation Reports is now available. For more information, see the Notice.