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Should a big research (e.g., PhD) be published as one comprehensive high-impact paper or several smaller, faster publications?
Should a big study perhaps a PhD student’s research be published as one comprehensive, high-impact paper or split into several smaller, focused publications? A single major paper can offer a cohesive, in-depth contribution with broader impact, but may delay dissemination. Multiple smaller papers can communicate findings more quickly and stimulate ongoing research, yet may lack the unified context of a larger work. What choice is the best - having a comprehensive paper in high impact journals...
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What do you think about post-publication review? Should it be adopted more widely?
Conventional peer-review takes quite long, and is one of the major reasons for the snail-pace of the publication process. On the other hand, it seems attractive to quickly make your article public as a preprint (e.g. on bioRxiv), so that it can get readership and may be citations even before formal publication. Some journals (F1000Research, eLife, etc.) have started the practice of post-publication review. Here 'publication' means not 'acceptance', but making the article public with a valid...
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Are surveillance and 'omics' profiling studies being overhyped, and eating up the limited funding for scientific research?
These day, there has been a considerable increase in publications reporting some sort of genomics/transcriptomics/metagenomics profiling. While these 'omics' tools are quite useful, many researchers simply adopt them as they guarantee some 'data' output, irrespective of sample type. Whatever sample you take, it will always have some microbial species, many genes, and you can easily report this 'profiling'. To make your study look 'big', you can increase the sample size. Such studies get...
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When it comes to "review" publications, which author is considered more important: the first or the last?
If you decide to be the first author of a review article, and the remaining contributors have equal involvement, how should the last author be chosen? Or in other words, how can you indicate in the manuscript that the last-listed author contributed equally and is not being positioned as the senior author?
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Are their any benefits, if a recent PhD graduate have too many peer-reviewed publications as first author?
fresh PhD graduates face difficulties sometimes to apply for postdoc positions and for funds as an independent researcher
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Is it really necessary to add one or more foreign based authors in your manuscript even with required objectives proposed and work done?
The question is based on the manuscript submission to peer reviewed, Scientific journal and highly Indexed with societies or communities like Scopus, SCI, Web of Science and many more. We see many a times the same type of paper was accepted in the journal by ours were rejected and we may find the difference is foreign authors in the manuscript, whereas journal nowhere mentioned foreign authors are required or mandatory in your manuscript.
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Why is there a need for Research and Publication Ethics to be taught at Undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels?
The question concerns the importance of teaching research and publication ethics at different educational levels. Integrating research and publication ethics into education fosters responsible, trustworthy research practices and contributes to the overall advancement of knowledge. You are most welcome to share any specific areas you’d like to explore further and your thoughts about them.
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What are some obstacles you faced when trying to explain your research? What are your solutions?
Each of us has our own expertise, and there can be knowledge barriers for others outside of our expertise/industry to understand our research. This can hinder collaborations. What's your experiences and do you find ways to overcome it?
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What is the time limit for reviewing an article?
For the review of each article, there is a value to be given to the reviewer.
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