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The policies your journal must publish (and almost nobody can find)
Having editorial policies is not enough: they have to be published, specific and findable in two clicks. Here is the minimum list and what each one must say.
How to respond to peer review without losing the paper or your temper
The reports are in and they ask for changes. The response letter is a technical document with rules of its own: writing it well multiplies your chances of acceptance.
How to choose where to publish: verifiable signals of a serious journal
There is no reliable blacklist and no complete whitelist. What does exist is a set of signals you can check yourself in twenty minutes.
How to sign your papers: a consistent name and a complete affiliation
Your byline and affiliation are metadata, not paperwork. How you write them decides whether your output can be counted, and whether your institution shows up in the rankings that measure it.
ORCID: the identifier that follows you even if your name, country or institution changes
Your name is not an identifier: it gets written five different ways, it is shared by thousands of people and it changes over time. ORCID solves exactly that problem.
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