In the publish-or-perish world of academia, it’s often believed that only one kind of publication matters: the peer-reviewed journal article. Academic papers play an outsize role in determining ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

The platform helps to outline, draft, and expand any arguments. The source is created to ease the process of writing essays, ...

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

Academic scholars -- clinicians, researchers, and administrators who work at academic institutions and author manuscripts -- commonly default to publishing in peer-reviewed and specialty-specific ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...

Just as a prospective surgeon might study medicine with aplomb only to learn that academic prowess doesn’t necessarily translate to success with a scalpel, researchers often learn that their success ...

Academic publishing is famously difficult. Many jokes have been made, for instance, regarding hypothetical “Reviewer 2”—a reviewer who is so heartless and nasty toward your work that you may well ...

Most of the criticism of higher education revolves around teaching: fees are too high, too little learning is going on, viewpoint diversity is absent. Perhaps because it is less visible to the public, ...