India’s Journal Lists After UGC-CARE: What Changed
UGC no longer maintains an approved journal list. The decision about which journals count has moved to institutions, and each one needs a wr...
Open Access & Medical Publishing Guides
Practical, fact-checked guides for medical and scientific authors, reviewers and research offices. Learn how open access and article processing charges work, what happens in peer review, how to check that a journal is indexed and trustworthy, how to protect research integrity, and how to write manuscripts that editors send out for review.
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How to Read a Journal’s Author Guidelines Quickly
Author guidelines look like pages of small print, but only a handful of items decide whether your manuscript is ready. Read those first, in ...
How Medical Students Can Publish Their First Paper
Your first paper is mostly a project management problem. Choose something small enough to finish, and settle authorship, ethics and the jour...
Reporting Sex and Gender in Research (SAGER)
SAGER asks a simple question of every manuscript: did sex and gender matter here, and if so, can a reader see how you handled them? Here is ...