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An ethical issue in the Elsevier “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” ?

Today, I saw something quite incredible in the Elsevier journal “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy“, which you can see in the screen shot below: The authors wrote: As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although … Continue reading

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End of my term as associate editor for Array

I have been associate editor for the Array journal of Elsevier for 4 years. I have been happy to do this work but it is now the time for me to move on and focus on other things. What is … Continue reading

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How to deal with unethical reviewers? The good example of the EAAI journal

Today, I will talk about a problem that has been plaguing many academic journals in recent years. It is that several unethical reviewers are asking authors to cite several of their papers to boost their citation count. I previous wrote … Continue reading

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How to propose a special issue for a journal?

Today, I will talk about how to propose a special issue for a journal. What is a special issue? A special issue is a collection of articles on a specific topic or theme that is published in a journal. Special … Continue reading

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Unethical reviewers in academia (part 3)

Previously, I wrote two blog posts about unethical reviewers in academia (part 1 and part 2). It is not that I like this topic, but today, I will talk again about that. Why? Because, I keep encountering them, unfortunately. It … Continue reading

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CFP Special issue on Data Science to Transform How We Work and Live

I co-organize a special issue in the DSE (Data Science and Engineering) journal, published by Springer, about how data science can be used to transform how we work and live. Guest Editors: The planned schedule is as follows: Submission Deadline: … Continue reading

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A Tool to Generate Reviews of Academic Papers

Writing reviews is important but sometimes repetitive and time-consuming. Hence, today I built a tool to help automatize the process of review writing. You can try it at the website below: The Review Generator ( http://philippe-fournier-viger.com/reviewgenerator/index.html ) This tool let … Continue reading

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What I learned from being a journal editor for two years?

For over two years, I have worked as associate editor-in-chief for a major journal published by Springer. For this job, I have handled around 500 papers from all the steps of the review process. Recently, I have decided to stop … Continue reading

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Common Mistakes to Avoid when Submitting a Research Paper

In this short blog post, I will talk about some common mistakes that are done by researchers when submitting a paper to a journal or conference. And there are certainly many other mistakes. Those are the ones that comes to … Continue reading

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Why Journal Special Issues are Popular?

In this blog post, I will talk about journal special issues. I will talk about how special issues of journals are organized and why it can be good to submit to or organize academic journal special issues. What is a … Continue reading

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