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Dr Carole Sargent gives her top tips on understanding and responding to negative peer reviews.

Peer review can be a strange process, but it is the best we have …

Reformat if needed

Dr Pauline Ngimwa, Programme Manager for Professional Development and Training at the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (www.pasgr.org), describes a recent INASP-supported workshop to pilot a …

Even your own

Journal publishing professional and AuthorAID mentor, Matt Hodgkinson, gives practical advice on how researchers can avoid plagiarism accusations

It's implausible
 

Fulfilling the reviewer’s responsibility

How can researchers make informed choices about the best publications to follow or submit articles to? In this post, Gail Clement, Head of Research Services at California Institute of Technology …

Closing thanks

Reviewing academic articles keeps you up to date in your field and allows you to engage constructively with the cutting edge of research. In this post, Richard de Grijs, Professor …