What’s the right career path for you?
Guest blogger Victoria Schulman explains how an in-depth skills assessment can help you decide the correct career path for you as part of her career exploration series.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Improving peer review efficiency: highlights from PEERE
People from over thirty countries, and from various research backgrounds, gathered together last week for a PEERE workshop looking at “New models of peer review” in Athens, Greece. Here we find out what the event was about and what the hot topics in peer review research are right now.
Focusing on the research and not the anecdote
Our new journal, Research Integrity & Peer Review (RIPR), seeks to publish research about, you guessed it, research integrity (including research reporting) and peer review. As with many journals, we have already received several submissions that were outside the journal’s scope.
However, in this case all the rejected submissions were descriptions of single, specific incidents or policies. Liz Wager explains more about why RIPR does not consider this type of article.
How do you feel now you’ve started your PhD?
Sharing peer review experiences and knowledge
BMC Medicine has launched a new series of specialized ‘How to’ peer review articles written by experienced members of the journal’s editorial board. Jigisha Patel tells us more about this, explaining why there is a need for such a resource.
Quiz: How much of a specialist in peer review are you?
BMC Medicine recently published a new series on how to peer review, written by the journal’s experienced editorial board members. In light of this, we’ve put together a range of specialist peer review questions, how much do you know?
October blogs digest: antimicrobial resistance, healthy eating, an open access quiz, and more
Not had a chance to read all our posts this month? Here’s a roundup of what you’ve missed…