Readings on scientific readings and review

Readings on scientific writing, publishing and reviewing

ARTICLES

Glass RL (2000) A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper. Journal of Systems and Software 54:1

Burrows T (2011) Writing research articles for publication. Unpublished manuscript, the Asian Institute of Technology Language Center, Khlong Luang, Thailand.

Kallestinova ED (2011) How to Write Your First Research Paper. Yale J. Biol. Med. 84:181-190

Ecarnot F, Seronde MF, Chopard R, Schiele F, Meneveau N (2015) Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners. European Geriatric Medicine 6:573-579

Chapman C, Slade T (2015) Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication. BMJ 2015,351

Writing Manuscripts: The Alternative ‘Guide to Authors’ (15 March 2016)

Organised crime against the academic peer review system (23 May 2016)

So you're writing a paper (01 Dec. 2017)

Subhash Chandra Parija, Vikram Kate (2017) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer

Get Published: Your How-To Guide (21 Sep. 2018)

What makes a good grant application? (07 Aug. 2019)

The Rise in Predatory Publishers–how Can the Scholarly Community Protect Itself? (28 May 2019)

Papers as noise (27 Nov. 2019)

What publishing as a lead author has taught me. Four scientists reveal their key lessons from the publication process. (18 Dec. 2019)

Writing as an engineer or scientist.

Weinstein R (2020) How to write a manuscript for peer review. Journal of Clinical Apheresis 35:358-366.

Science Forum: Ten common statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or reviewing a manuscript (09 Oct. 2019)

Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial (05 February 2020)

Garramon Merkle B (2020) Writing Science: Leveraging a Few Techniques from Creative Writing Toward Writing More Effectively Bullet. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 101,e01650

Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing (30 March 2020)

Peterson DAM (2020) Dear Reviewer 2: Go F’ Yourself. Social Science Quarterly DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12824

Reviewing grant applications and manuscripts as a professional development strategy (21 Jul. 2020)

Science Writing as a Career Path (30 Jul. 2020)

Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them (12 Oct. 2020)

What should I do if my paper is rejected? (14 Oct. 2020)

How to write a superb literature review (04 Dec. 2020)

Focus on Peer Review online course — free course (2020)

Helgesson G, Master Z, Bülow W (2021) How to Handle Co-authorship When Not Everyone’s Research Contributions Make It into the Paper. Science and Engineering Ethics 27:27

Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon (06 Apr. 2021)

Alwine JC, Enquist LW, Dermody TS, Goodrum F (2021) What is the price of science? mBio 12:e00117-00121

Legendre L (2021) The pleasure of writing, being published, appealing to readers, and contributing to the advancement of knowledge. ICES Journal of Marine Science 78:1943-1955

How to write a rebutal letter?

Merkle BG (2022) Writing Science: Leveraging the Annotated Bibliography as a Writing Tool. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 103:e01936

Tong Y (2022) As a nonnative speaker, I struggled to write scientific papers in English. Here’s how I learned. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.adb1781

Ludo Waltman L , Kaltenbrunner W, Pinfield S, Buckley Woods H (2022) How to improve scientific peer review: Four schools of thought. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/v8ghj

Sharma RK, Ogle HL (2022) Twelve tips for students who wish to write and publish. Med Teach 44:360-365

Gradoville MR, Deemer BR, van Dorst RM (2022) Peer Review by and for Non-Native English Speakers: Building a Skilled Reviewer Pool Across International Limnological Societies. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 31:127-128

The writing BASE

Montagnes DJS, Montagnes EI, Yang Z (2022) Finding your scientific story by writing backwards. Marine Life Science & Technology 4:1-9

Wang H, Guan J (2023) The impact of “Five No’s for Publication” on academic misconduct. Accountability in Research:1-19

Tropini C, Finlay BB, Nichter M, Melby MK, Metcalf JL, Dominguez-Bello MG, Zhao L, McFall-Ngai MJ, Geva-Zatorsky N, Amato KR, Undurraga EA, Poinar HN, Gilbert JA (2023) Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis. mBio 0:e01091-01023

Nakagawa, S. and Lagisz, M. (2024) The ABC of academic writing: non-native speakers’ perspective. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39:307-310.

Receveur, A., Bonfanti, J., D'Agata, S., Helmstetter, A.J., Moore, N.A., Oliveira, B.F., Petit-Cailleux, C., Rievrs Borges, E., Schultz, M., Sexton, A.N. and Veytia, D. (2024) David versus Goliath: Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system. Ecology Letters 27, e14395.

I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it (03 Oct. 2024)

Gu J-D (2025) What is missing in a manuscript? International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 198:106012

Aczel B, Barwich A-S, Diekman AB, Fishbach A, Goldstone RL, Gomez P, Gundersen OE, von Hippel PT, Holcombe AO, Lewandowsky S, Nozari N, Pestilli F, Ioannidis JPA (2025) The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122:e2401232121

Carroll KA, East A, Gao X, McMullen II JG, Emery N (2025) Early-Career Publishing and Reviewing: Pitfalls and Perspectives. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 106:e70023

Proctor DM, Abraham R, Righi SE (2025) From novice to expert: preparing your peer review. mBio 16:e00430-00425