The cover letter is a frequently overlooked part of submitting a paper to a journal for consideration. 

LONDON May 2020: The Royal Society of Chemistry has selected The Charlesworth Group to provide English language editing and publication support services in Chinese and English local language as part of an exclusive, enhanced service to their science community. 

This case study will discuss how Dove Medical Press Ltd uses Charlesworth’s proprietary platform WeChat Gateway to deepen its author experience and increase communication and satisfaction levels amongst its Chinese authors, while delivering efficiencies for the publisher. 

What is plagiarism?

Most researchers are already familiar with the concept of plagiarism, which is presenting someone else’s intellectual property – text, images, ideas, etc. – as your own.

LONDON 28th May 2020: The Charlesworth Group continues their partnership with The American Phytopathological Society (APS) to provide English language editing and publication support services to APS authors around the world, with local language support in Chinese and English. APS already has an existing relationship with The Charlesworth Group who have provided China sales representation to APS since 2012 and adding language editing and support services will elavate support for their author community in China. 

Researchers are increasingly required to participate in public engagement and research communication activity. 

LONDON 18^th May 2020: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s oldest and largest scientific computing society, has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to expand the benefits of the ACM OPEN “read and publish” Open Access (OA) licensing model in China.  

For many doctoral students, working on a PhD will be unlike any other academic or professional experience.

The working relationship that a PhD student has with their supervisor can be the most important factor for determining the success and enjoyment of their doctoral journey. 

Winning funding has become a very important component of ‘success’ for researchers; academics are usually measured by universities and research institutes on the basis of their publications and grant income (to a greater or lesser extent depending on country).

LONDON 6^TH April 2020: Charlesworth Author Services is delighted to announce a new partnership with Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to provide English language editing and publication support services to SIAM’s global research community, 

Peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing, the process by which research manuscripts submitted to journals are appraised. Based on the comments of ‘peer reviewers’, journal editors make decisions whether, or not, to accept articles for publication.

One key part of academic development is developing the skills to give great conference presentations. These are skills that can be learned; although some people are naturally talented public speakers, you can develop and train yourself to be better at presenting your work and ideas.

One of our goals at Charlesworth Author Services is to help you ensure that you get your message across in your papers and that your writing and content is memorable.

In academic publishing, ‘aiming high’ means selecting a target journal with the best possible impact factor.

Increasing volumes of new information are constantly added to the existing medical literature because of new research and data collection, as well as novel clinical experiences.

Typically, academic authors tend to submit their articles to journals via online automated systems and then sit back and wait.

Before submitting your manuscript to an academic journal, it is important to format it according to the journal’s guidelines, which can cover anything from the font style used to the sections that should be included in the paper. Formatting a manuscript can be a detailed, time-consuming process, but there a several advantages to submitting a properly formatted manuscript.

Open access (OA) publishing is a relatively recent development in the scientific world, and describes a publishing model in which articles are freely available, unlike the more traditional model of scientific publishing which requires readers to pay to access articles.

A preprint is a research article draft completed prior to publication that is then publicly shared by the author(s) prior to, or after, formal journal-controlled peer-review, but before publication. Preprints are documents that are often not typeset or built into online content.