Publishing Include junior researchers in peer review We, a group of early career researchers (ECRs) involved in the eLife Community Ambassadors programme, believe that the rigour, speed, and inclusivity of existing peer review processes can be significantly improved by including (more) ECRs. ecrLife 4 Mar 2020 • 4 min read
Publishing What makes a good paper? “What makes a good paper?” is a great question that many scientists still ask themselves when they submit their work for consideration to be published. One of the most common Steven Burgess 26 Feb 2019 • 4 min read
Publishing Creating a research figure: Tips from graphic design Your story is coming together and the data is there, but now comes the part of writing a paper that most researchers have never been formally taught: creating figures. In Anne Martin 18 Jan 2019 • 6 min read
Publishing On preprints and journal clubs By Steven Burgess (@sjb015) When will you get round to that paper that you keep meaning to read – but only after you have done one more experiment? How do ecrLife 8 Jan 2019 • 6 min read
Publishing Beyond bar graphs: free tools and resources for creating more transparent figures for small datasets Over the past few years, many journals have implemented policies banning or discouraging the use of bar graphs for continuous data, especially in small sample size studies. This includes PLOS Tracey Weissgerber 10 Jul 2018 • 4 min read
Publishing Are scientific societies drifting into irrelevance? Dramatic declines in the output of some society journals over the last five years has led to a shift of power in publishing, raising tough questions for scientific communities ”Peer-reviewed Steven Burgess 19 Jun 2018 • 7 min read
