No one goes to graduate school to become a scholarly editor, and very few of us are taught how to edit while we’re there. Still, plenty of us can end up doing important editing work at some point in ...

I became an academic editor by accident. In 2015, an acquaintance asked if I was up for some last-minute proofreading. He was an adjunct professor and the sole author on a short article. His revisions ...

The Division of Surgical Oncology’s Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., has been asked to serve on the editorial board for the journal, PLOS ONE, as an academic editor. PLOS ONE academic editors form an ...

An analysis of the publication records of academic editors shows that one-quarter of them publish 10% of their own papers in the journals they edit and reveals that fewer than 10% of editors-in-chief ...

I’ve been a writer since, technically, the third grade, when my short story, The Wolf & I, won me third place and $300 i ...