When I have published in a journal managed by Elsevier, I have had to fill out ‘Highlights’. According to Elsevier, these highlights are ‘bullet points that help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines.’ My problem with this is not only that we already have keywords for journal articles, but that I do […]
Tag: academia
The discussion section
Scientific studies tend to follow the same logical structure. Introduction, theory, method, results, discussion, conclusion. Easy-peasy. Sometimes the sections have other names or are merged together, e.g., “Discussion and concluding remarks”, and for the less serious journals (such as PNAS), they save the methodology for the footnote-size section at the end of the paper. I […]
Academic Publishing Total Landscaping
The other day I saw a lot of people sharing a link to a new study in The Lancet. The paper in question is titled “Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19” (see, for example, this and this tweet that went viral). I have not read the study and I have no plans […]