Mastering Journal Publication & Peer Review: Strategies for Success in the Natural and Life Sciences

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration.

Participation

For advanced doctoral researchers in Natural and Life Sciences.

Objectives

• To maximize the impact of journal articles and grant proposals
• To navigate the peer review and the broader publication process
• To learn what editors and reviewers expect from journal articles and grant proposals
• To deal with feedback and criticism in different cultures

Content

• Introduction to scholarly publishing
• How to select a target journal
• The peer review system: submitting, revising, and resubmitting
• Skills needed to master the peer review process
• How to effectively communicate with editors and reviewers
• Criteria checked by editors and reviewers for journal articles grant proposals
• Giving and receiving feedback and criticism in Germany and across other cultures
• Copyright and licenses
• Ethical issues in publishing (e.g. predatory publishing, authorship disputes, plagiarism)
• Artificial Intelligence and scholarly publishing
  

Further Information

Participants can draft a cover letter for their next article. Therefore, before the workshop participants are asked to prepare the (preliminary) title of their next article.

If there are free spots, we also allow postdocs to participate.

For workshops held online, participation is allowed under the following conditions: a working camera that is turned on and a microphone to allow active participation in discussions and group work. Headphones must also be used to protect other participants from office eavesdroppers. In this context, we would also like to refer to the rules for digital courses at Freie Universität Berlin (Code of Conduct).