TopicPublication
2011
- The Life of an Elsevier Editorial System Manuscript
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A recent submission to the Journal of Memory and Language , an Elsevier journal has made my hyper-aware of how the way a manuscript's progress through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) is indicated. For future reference,…
- Elsevier's Research Highlights
On my recent submission of a manuscript to the Journal of Memory and Language (an Elsevier journal), I was faced with the unexpected task of having to provide "Research highlights" of the submitted manuscript. Elsevier describe…
2013
- Identifying Scientific Misconduct
Finding needle in haystack (Photo credit: Bindaas Madhavi) A former colleague of mine at an institution I no longer work at has admitted to being a science fraudster.* I participated in their experiments, I read their…
- The Life of a Psychological Science Submission
A recent submission to (and rejection from) Psychological Science has provided me with enough information on the editorial process, via Manuscript Central, to blog a follow-up to my Elsevier Editorial System blog of 2011 . (I'm…
- Open Access...
pays off in the end. Tweet twitter.com/StAndrewsUniLib/status/375281753692184576
- How much could open access publishers charge?
I'm going to disregard the usual speculation about what type-setter and editorial assistant salaries are, and how much distribution infrastructure costs because these are all tied in to the true costs of publishing from a publisher's…
2014
- Objecting to an Editorial Decision
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Last week Ravi Mill and I had a paper accepted to Consciousness and Cognition. It was accepted after 49 weeks with the journal in four rounds of review. The editorial decisions on the paper were: Reject,…
- Publishing in PeerJ
Our latest paper on deja vu has been published in PeerJ today: link here . The publication process was great - a far cry from some of the negative gate-keeping experiences I have had trying to…
2015
- Bad things come in... EIGHTS??
I, like most humans, am bad at understanding randomness and good at spotting patterns that don't necessarily exist . I also frequently have thoughts like: "That's the third time this paper has been rejected. It must…
- Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Publication Costs
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The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience have just invoiced me $985 for a paper they agreed to publish earlier this year. This wasn't unexpected - not only did we sign away our copyright, allowing MIT Press to…
2016
- But did you REALLY experience déjà vu?
Is it possible to reliably generate déjà vu in participants? Is it possible to get participants to reliably report déjà vu? These very similar questions are not necessarily as closely linked as we might think. A…
- Special Issue of Memory on Déjà vu
Call for papers: Déjà vu and other dissociative states in memory A special issue of Memory Submission deadline: 31st July 2017 Guest Editors (email links): Chris Moulin , Akira O’Connor and Christine Wells In recent years,…