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Tag Archives: journals
Friday fun: Selling yourself
Over the last few days I’ve been updating some of the slides I use in my ‘Scientific publishing and communicating chemistry’ talk. One of the slides looks at five general-chemistry journals and pulls some quotes from their websites that they … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Publishing, Quiz time!
Tagged angewandte chemie, chem commun, chem sci, chemistry, friday fun, fun, impact factor, jacs, journals, metrics, nature chemistry, publishing
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For the record
Sarah Everts from C&EN was kind enough to ask me for a comment about Angewandte Chemie to include in her article about its 125th anniversary. My quote is in the third paragraph from the end, but as with all these … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged angewandte chemie, c&en, chemistry, graphical abstracts, journals, nature chemistry, publishing
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The times they aren’t a-changin’
Thanks to @drpeterrodgers for pointing out these two chemistry-related articles from Nature in 1970. First up, is Chemists are Like Dodos (you need to be a subscriber — sorry), which looks at a report by Prof. Colin Eaborn entitled, ‘Committee of … Continue reading
The life editorial (in brief)
With apologies to @BenchFly (who sent me a set of thought-provoking career-related questions a long time ago now — and I promise I will answer them at some point), here is a short post to take part in the #ChemCoach … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Carnivals, Publishing
Tagged #chemcoach, chemistry, chemjobs, editorial, journal development, journals, nature chemistry, peer review, publishing, seearroh
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Peer-review polls
I’m starting to think about some of the talks I’ll be giving whilst on my travels later in the year. Questions relating to peer review inevitably crop up — about double-blind peer review, open peer review, or why the vast … Continue reading
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Tagged journals, peer review, polls, publishing, refereeing, referees
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Chemical connections 
Insight story
And breathe. Closing issues of Nature Chemistry can sometimes be a bit frantic – and the just-published September issue was a little more of a challenge than usual. In addition to the usual types of content (research articles, reviews, research … Continue reading →