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Motivations to publish vary greatly between researchers and tend to be especially dependent on career stage. Considering the different reasons authors, reviewers and editors want to see work appear in peer-reviewed journals can help us become more efficient in our respective roles and understand those working in other parts of this process.

Learn to manage an academic job interview to your advantage and maximise your chances of success.

All academic researchers currently want to see their research published in the best possible journals, which means those with the highest impact factors (IFs).

The idea of promoting yourself can seem awkward.  However, with it becoming ever more competitive to secure positions and funding in academia, we all need to showcase our experience and achievements, and ensure that potential employers can see our best qualities.

This webinar series discusses academic careers and gives important guidelines that could help you land your first job in academia. 

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How to establish your career outside academia? This module gives tips that academic job-seekers looking for a career outside academia could use.

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This module addresses the difficult questions every job seeker in academia faces about drafting a CV, prepping for an interview and managing a digital presence.

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This module is designed to help you understand the peer review process. It talks about peer review, explains the peer review process, describes the types of peer review and shares tips on how to become a great peer reviewer.

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There are several steps you can take as an academic to pave the way for a successful publishing career. One of them is to serve as a peer reviewer for a journal and experience the review process. 

It is no secret that academia has become a more and more challenging career choice and the academic sector is far from the secure employer it was for some decades ago. Careers are shortening, competition over positions is intensifying, and the number of researchers who never appear as the first author of a publication is on the rise, according to a paper written by Milojević, Radicchi, and Walsh (2018). Whether you decide to play the game of academia or are on the lookout for a non-university job, you are facing the challenge of learning to package and market your skills and make some well-planned choices.

Career opportunities in academia are highly sought after, positions are limited and competition is tough. Unless you are very determined to remain within academia, it is worth considering other career options in non-academic sectors and industries. This article suggests key points to bear in mind as you think about pursuing alternative career paths.

One of the great hopes and promises of academic open access (OA) publishing is that it will connect academia with industry and governmental policy makers. Such connections form structural equity, which in turn promotes diversity and inclusion. OA plays a significant role in ensuring equality among researchers from developing and developed countries. Many bridges do exist, as explored in this article.

Many resources exist to help authors with preparing their papers; few provide insight into some subtle yet essential characteristics of successful academic writing. This article looks at some of those essential subtle elements that will help you succeed.

The amount of literature in all fields is growing at an exponential rate. How can you keep up with the latest literature in your field? Here are some effective methods used by fellow research academics.

How do scientific researchers, especially academics, continue their education? This article explains many requirements — as well as learning avenues — which you can tailor to your specialty, academic institution and personality.

Retractions are usually the result of concerns raised by editors or readers. When authors request the retraction of their own work, it is called a self-retraction. 

Few researchers are awarded the opportunity to build a lab from the ground up. In this article, we outline some things to consider if you are setting up your own lab.

Many researchers work towards commercial avenues to realise the potential of their technology. Here, we discuss ways to begin - and some things to consider on - your start-up journey.

With the rapidly increasing volumes of submissions today, timely peer review depends on a diverse and readily available reviewer pool. Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are a valuable resource to tap into for this. What’s more, ECRs stand to gain much from early peer review experience.