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Questions tagged [publication-process]

For questions about writing and publishing in the cognitive sciences.

For questions about writing and publishing in the cognitive sciences.

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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. These reports however, do not indicate whether journals are open…
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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 two databases. That is, when importing a couple…
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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 covers seemingly all areas of research. What are…
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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 the Medline database only?
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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? I'm new in neuroscience, and it seems (compared…
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What contextual links would make full-text journal articles more useful?

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 included within the article? i,e links to Brain Atlas,…
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