In this essay, I’ll break down and demystify the format of an article for a general journal. Note that I’m a sociologist, so my insights are field-specific. So, too, must I acknowledge that journals, ...

Eisen, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that scientists can get much better value by publishing in open-access journals, which make articles free for ...

For example, one of the articlespublished in the May 2014 Diagnostic Pathology looks on the surface like a typical meta-analysis of the ... While looking for trends in medical journal articles, ...

A five-sentence letter published in the Journal in 1980 has been heavily cited as evidence that long-term opioid therapy has seldom been associated with addiction. Of the 608 citations, 72.2% used ...

According to one 2007 study, not many people: half of academic papers are read only by their authors and journal editors, the study's authors write. But not all academics accept that they have an ...