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A Self-Publishing Author’s Guide to Editing
Congratulations! You finally finished that story. Now what? Whether you think it’s a terrible first draft and you’re unsure what to do next or it’s your sixth rewrite and you’re ready to send it to publishers, the next step should be editing. But what kind of...
Gender Balance in the Sciences: What Does the Altmetric Top 100 Tell Us?
Each year, Altmetric, the organization that tracks the online attention published research receives, compiles the Altmetric Top 100, a list of the most-discussed scholarly contributions of the year. Analysis of the Altmetric Top 100 can provide insight into the...
Watch: Technica Editorial Makes Slime in Honor of National Chemistry Week
Stick with chemists across the world in celebrating #NationalChemistryWeek 2020 with the theme "Sticking with Chemistry." In honor of this week, Technica Editorial brought three generations together to make slime. Check it out with a recipe and instructions at the...
Can Plan S Survive COVID-19?
In the publishing industry, perhaps the only issue that is talked about more than COVID-19 is Plan S. I’ll spare everyone a recap of Plan S (but we’ve written about it here and discussed it extensively here), but the ISMTE virtual conference held in August included...
Chapel Hill Public Library Adapts to Changes in the Publishing Industry
There have been many changes in the scholarly publishing world in recent years. The issue of open access and transparency has come to the forefront of publishing discussions, and there’s no denying that it is one of the most important topics facing the industry in...
How to Be Ready to Go Viral—And How to Capitalize on It When You Do
A crucial component of running a journal is increasing readership. The importance of providing engaging online content and having an active social media presence cannot be overstated. How well prepared are you to take advantage of these features if one of your...
Five ways to facilitate good reviews at your journal
Thoughtful, constructive, and on-time reviews make an editor’s job much easier. However, as journal staff can attest, reviews can often be brief, off topic, and late. While much of the burden is on reviewers to provide quality feedback on submissions, there are...
Peer Review Week 2020: The Technica Staff Share Their Thoughts
Technica Editorial joins our colleagues and fellow publishers in celebrating Peer Review Week! The theme for Peer Review Week 2020 is “Trust in Peer Review,” highlighting the importance of the peer review process in helping to build trust in research and scholarly...
Five tips for being a good peer reviewer
It goes without saying that reviewers are central to the peer review process. Thoughtful and thorough evaluations of submitted manuscripts can be the difference between increasing a journal’s impact factor and having to retract poorly researched or flawed articles....
Predatory Publishing Makes a Comeback in COVID-19
The name of the game in COVID-19 research has been speed. With the situation being everchanging and on the minds of both experts and laypeople, authors are trying to publish their latest COVID-19 studies as quickly as possible before scientific consensus changes....
