Rising Scholars News

[This post is from Caroline Cage. Caroline is a PhD candidate in development studies, and she is a monitoring and evaluation officer at INASP. Thank you, Caroline! —Barbara] I have …

Hello again. Recently one of my students mentioned an online resource called Wordnik. I’m pleased to feature it as our Resource of the Week. From the Wordnik homepage, you …

Table or figure?

Hello again. As I write this post, the Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication is about to begin. As shown in the program, this congress features …

We are pleased to announce the newest recipients of AuthorAID travel grants. They are Dr. Lumbini Roy, of Bangladesh, and Dr. Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, of Pakistan. Dr. Roy is a …

It won't work

Hello again. Here at Texas A&M University, our school year began last week. This time of year, I think about beginnings of previous school years. I especially recall the school …

Hello again. When a journal article results from research by a group of people, which group members qualify to be listed as authors? Over the years, the International Committee of …

Don't rely on memory

[This post is by visiting scholar Fan Xiaohui (Sophie Fan), who has been working with me. Although the post regards papers by Chinese authors, many points in it also apply …