Comes another reminder that some scholarly journals, like some people, are less careful than others. [Another way to put this: if the ONLY thing you know about a report is that it was published in “a scholarly journal”, then you know almost nothing about it.] Richard van Noorden reports, in Nature: The publishers Springer and IEEE are […]
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How not to get your article published
We received this cover letter, which accompanied a lengthy article written in Russian. We have blotted out the author’s name (which may be overkill, because it was illegible). When a magazine is published entirely in one language (our magazine happens to be in English), submissions written in other languages may be at a disadvantage. In […]