This week I devote a blogpost to one of the most important parts of a paper - its beginning. The introduction section sets the tone for our paper, and is the moment where we win or loose our readers ...

In this interview I discuss with Viki her 'secrets': her work ethics, the organization of her lab and research projects, and the way she handles the publication process ...

Your paper has been published. Now how do you get people to read it? Vassilis Kostakis is offering this week 7 tips for spread out the word about your work ....

Isabelle Anguelovski is an ICREA professor at my institute, ICTA, in Barcelona. Isabelle has a PhD in urban planning from M.I.T. and is recipient of a European Research Council starting grant to study how the greening of cities may cause gentrification. Isabelle is a young (and needless to say, very successful) academic at the beginning of her tenure, young enough to remember and sympathise with the grievances of PhD and post - doc researchers. We discussed about the writing and publishing process, their nice and not so nice moments...

We've all been there. We submitted our hard-worked paper and one day we receive a polite email where the Editor tells us that our paper has been rejected. What's next? In this post I cent my two cents of wisdom on how to deal with a rejection...

Since I launched the blog, many of you have emailed me with questions. Thank you! Here are some brief answers...

Aaron Vansintjan is both a junior researcher and a seasoned editor and has been on both sides of feedback. In this post he shares with us his understanding of the editing process, and what it takes to give good feedback...

This week I join forces with Vassilis Kostakis, a professor of P2P governance at Tallinn University and Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center, to share with you some simple tips on how to respond to reviewers based on our experience...

Jeroen van den Bergh, editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, and Esteve Corbera, editor of the journal Geoforum discuss what they are looking for when an article is submitted to their journals...

Navigating the world of academic writing as a non-native English speaker can sometimes be a trying experience. The internationality of research is rooted in English...

A Special Issue is, like an edited book, a collection of articles on the same theme published together and curated by one or more editors. Unlike a book, a special issue is published in a scientific journal...

The quality of your writing—and your publishing success—cannot be separated from the quality of your reading. In fact, the depth of your critical engagement with current debate and the sophistication of your argument depends on your ability to read critically...

In this guest post Jason Kincaid shares with us ways to take advantage of recent developments in automatic transcription to extract your ideas using a voice recorder...

Academic writing is a funny business. It’s not done to entertain, as in the case of fiction, but to communicate a set of ideas as carefully and unambiguously as possible...

The order of authors on a published scholarly article matters in academia: the first author gets the most credit for the study. As a collaborative feminist science and technology lab, CLEAR works to include equity and justice in everything they do, from building technology to deciding how to credit our lab members for their work...

In this post, I will tell you how to write clearly and simply.....

If you are a student, you may have received a random email inviting you to submit an article to a journal you’ve never heard of....

This week, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, shares with us his experience with using co-design techniques and digital tools to facilitate collaborative writing....

Not all journals ask you to suggest reviewers, but many do. Why?....

In blog post we share a video. I have a conversation with Dan O'Neill about the pains and gains of the writing process...

In this blogpost, Stephanie shares a tip that has worked for her in her early efforts to write and publish her research....

A clear and attractive journal article requires a great deal of preparation and self-criticism. Even obviously talented writers will admit that it takes at least as much perspiration as inspiration...

The title is the first thing you write. It is the moment you decide what is the purpose, focus and message of your article....

When would you need to edit out large parts of your paper? Well, when your text is too long! When I was a PhD student I had a paper that was 15,000 words. I presented it at conference after conference. It lingered on my desk for months...

You have finished your paper, made all the changes that you needed to do and polished your arguments. Now you need to look at it one last time, focussing on grammar, syntax and typos. How do you do this?...

Before starting to write a paper, you need an outline: a table of contents and a basic idea of what will go in each section and subsection. How do you do this?...