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Peer Review and You: How to Bounce Back from Rejection
By Pablo Artal, OSA FellowOSA Fellow Pablo Artal has kindly allowed OPN’s Bright Futures career blog to republish content from his popular blog Optics Confidential. In his blog, Artal fields questions...
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Communication Skills for Researchers
By Jean-Luc DoumontThe time when an introverted scientist could happily hide in his or her lab with guaranteed funding for several decades is long gone. Nowadays, researchers spend a large share of...
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Advice to a Self-Plagiarist
By Pablo Artal, OSA FellowOSA Fellow Pablo Artal has kindly allowed OPN’s Bright Futures career blog to republish content from his own popular blog, in which he fields questions from students,...
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by Carlos López-Mariscal and Julio Gutierrez-VegaAs a young scientist, when you publish your first papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, you announce your presence to the scientific community....
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The Publishing Path: A Conversation with Costanza Zucca
This week, OPN talks with Costanza Zucca, editorial manager with the Frontiers journals, a series of open-access publications driven by researchers for researchers. Costanza obtained a Ph.D. in plasma...
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Lessons from an Editorial Term
Pablo Artal OSA Fellow Pablo Artal recently finished his second and final term as a topical editor of theJournal of the Optical Society of America A. Here, he shares his advice to authors and reviewers...
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Writing Up a (Scientific) Storm
Arti Agrawal As a Ph.D. student, I was exposed to only two kinds of science writing: textbooks and journal articles. When our work reached a sufficiently advanced stage, we wrote our own papers and...
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Are All Citations Created Equal?
Pablo Artal OSA Fellow Pablo Artal has kindly allowed OPN’s Bright Futures career blog to adapt and republish content from his popular blog Optics Confidential. In his blog, Artal fields questions...
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