The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate
within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers' high …

Reviews have long been recognized as among the most important forms of scientific
communication. The rapid growth of the primary literature has further increased the need for …

Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and
positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the authority to decide which judgments …

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists The
Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and …

Although scores of articles and books have been written on what constitutes good writing in
academia, we've granted far less attention to academic writing as a daily practice. Yet it is …

Previous research indicates that during the past 20 years, the highest‐quality work has been
published in an increasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In this article, we examine …

At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly
scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of …

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is
given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion …

Background: Concerns with problematic research are primarily attributed to statistics and
methods used to support data. Language, as an extended component of problematic …

In March of 1665, a seemingly small thing happened: the first scientific journal was
published. For the next 350 years this new communication forum went through fits and starts …