Questions tagged [publication-process]
For questions about writing and publishing in the cognitive sciences.
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Question about risk of bias tools
I am currently conducting a systematic narrative review for publication and I need to settle on a risk of bias tool. It is a systematic review on mechanisms of change in psychotherapy and therefore I ...
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Should I define each and every term while writing an article for a psychology journal?
I am writing a review article on dialectical behavioral therapy. If in the article, there are technical terms related to behavioral therapy, so, should I define each of the terms while writing the ...
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Do I report all anatomical regions in a large significant cluster identified in functional connectivity seed-to-voxel analysis?
I am conducting a resting-state functional connectivity seed-to-voxel analysis on the 25 participants from the NYC test-retest dataset using the CONN toolbox with the Posterior Cingulate Cortex of the ...
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Procedures behind establishing the IQ scale
There are some good answers about testing individual's intelligence, and about mathematics side of the IQ scale, e.g:
When current IQ tests are developed, the median raw score of the norming sample ...
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How should I report results of a likelihood ratio test?
I'm using likelihood ratio testing to assess whether a behavioral model is a better description of my data than a simpler (so called restricted) model.
How should results of such statistical tests be ...
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What are the highest ranked neuroscience journals that use double-blind review process?
In terms of impact factor (for a lack of a better proxy), what are the highest ranked neuroscience journals that use double-blind review process?
I would be submitting a paper that combines ...
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How to report an F statistic in APA style?
How do you report F statistics in APA format? I am working on PHD and am not certain that I am reporting the F statistics in the proper manner.
I have been reporting it as F (_,_). The second space I ...
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How much overlap should I expect between Medline and PsycINFO?
I'm currently conducting a set of broad searches in both Medline and PsycINFO. However, when importing the results into my reference manager, I'm surprised of how little overlap there is between these ...
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Make a search limited only to Medline?
From what I can tell (and from what Wikipedia can tell), the Pubmed database forms a superset of the Medline database, throwing some extra stuff in there. However, is there any way to make a search in ...
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Good conferences on (computational) neuroscience in Europe and whether to submit to conference or journal?
I'm looking for good (computational) neuroscience conferences in Europe that $\textbf{have proceedings}$. Recommendations? Or are there even such conferences? Should I just send my work to a journal? ...
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Are there guidelines in the peer reviewing process on assessing methodology?
Usually an article goes through a peer-review process before it is published, and from what I here it is quite common that the reviewers "demand" some changes.
Are there guidelines for peer- ...
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Psychological journal that focuses on publishing interesting psychological datasets
There are a range of data repositories around. There are also journals that permit online attachments. That said, my general experience with such online attachments is that the data sharing is an ...
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What contextual links would make full-text journal articles more useful? [closed]
After searching PubMed or Google Scholar researchers often arrive at a publisher's full-text article page. Assuming that you have access to the full-text access, what contextual links should be ...
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Plotting publication-quality ball-and-stick models of brain connectivity in 3D
I'm working on brain imaging (fMRI) and I'm looking for a way to plot brain effective connectivity (dynamic causal modeling) parameters between different brain regions in a 3D plot. The plotting ...
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When is it best to use PsycINFO versus Google Scholar?
PsycINFO is a abstracting service provided by the APA dedicated to research in the behavioural sciences to which many universities subscribe. Google Scholar provides a free abstracting service that ...
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How do you refer to something in APA-style that is not submitted to be published?
I'm writing a paper in APA-style. At the end of it, I have my references. There is this one paper (actually an internship report) that I refer to, but it hasn't been submitted for publication. How ...
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Are there any open access journals in the cognitive sciences with impact factor >1
Impact factors are scores assigned to journals which indicate how often, on average, articles are cited. Impact factors are published in Journal Citation reports of Thomson Reuters.
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How can I find open access journals for cognitive science research?
What open access journals that publish research in cognitive science/psychology exist?
Apart from PLOS ONE, are there any other open access journals that publish research in cognitive science/...
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What are the major changes in the APA Publication Manual from 5th to 6th editions?
A lot of journals use APA style for journal article submissions. In 2009 APA released the 6th edition with several changes to the 5th edition.
What's a good summary of the important changes in the ...
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