Great Impressions in Academic Publishing

Guidelines for selecting journals that avoid fraudulent practices in scholarly publishing

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

Comparing the Status of Publishing Scientific Journals in State Universities and Islamic Azad University Units

This descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and Islamic Azad Universities. Statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.Magiran.com. Required information were collected using a questionnaire. Results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...

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Academic Publishing: Making the Implicit Explicit

For doctoral students, publishing in peer-reviewed journals is a task many face with anxiety and trepidation. The world of publishing, from choosing a journal, negotiating with editors and navigating reviewers’ responses is a bewildering place. Looking in from the outside, it seems that successful and productive academic writers have knowledge that is inaccessible to novice scholars. While ther...

Blinded by Beauty: Attractiveness Bias and Accurate Perceptions of Academic Performance

Despite the old adage not to 'judge a book by its cover', facial cues often guide first impressions and these first impressions guide our decisions. Literature suggests there are valid facial cues that assist us in assessing someone's health or intelligence, but such cues are overshadowed by an 'attractiveness halo' whereby desirable attributions are preferentially ascribed to attractive people...