Rising Scholars - Resources

In this guide, we outline the steps to starting and running your own AuthorAID journal club and share learning from our existing journal clubs.

Topics: Data analysis and statistics, Peer reviewing and editing, Research and publication ethics, The publishing process, Career resources, Scientific writing, Academic writing and style, Research literature

...rsion of a guide written by Voice of Young Science members for Early Career Researchers. The new edition reflects the changing attitudes of researchers, publishers and the public.

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing, Training resources, The publishing process, Scientific writing

...f concerns raised by their peers, the VoYS writing team set off to interview scientists, journal editors, grant bodies’ representatives, patient group workers and journalists in the UK and around the ...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing, Scientific writing

Contains many examples of errors and alternative, better options. Errors are grouped in the following categories: General research and writing practices Content of quantitative papers Mechanics of wr...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing, Oral and poster presentations, The publishing process, Scientific writing, Academic writing and style

Publons allows peer reviewers to track, verify and showcase their peer review contributions across the world's journals.

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing

Main sections: "Editing for content" "Editing for organisation and structure: paragraphs" "Editing for expression" "Editing for academic style" "Editing for formatting" Also includes includes a chec...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing

... journal when you take over Relations with the outgoing editor Relations with the other editors/editorial board Relations with authors Transparency The submission system Relationship with reviewers Th...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing

This article provides guidance on editing and proofreading one's own writing, especially on medical topics. A general checklist plus checklists for editing scientific papers, grant proposals, and feat...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing, Academic writing and style

... scientific knowledge production. Valuable new knowledge lays untouched at reviewers' desks and editorial offices for extended periods of time. This is an unnecessary loss of time in the scientific pr...

Topics: Peer reviewing and editing

Resource Library

Toolkit:A guide to starting and running an AuthorAID journal club

Toolkit:Peer review the nuts and bolts: A guide for early career researchers

Web resource:Responding to Reviewers: What to Expect and How to Do it

Article:Peer Review - the nuts and bolts

Book:"The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences"

Web resource:Publons

"Editing Your Writing"

Web resource:A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors, Version 2

Article:"Editing and Proofreading Your Own Work"

Web resource:SciRev