On the 22nd September 2021 we held the fourth webinar in our Early Career Researcher (ECR) Lunchtime Seminar Series. This webinar was on academic publishing. We heard some expert advice from VAMHN Co-lead Dr Helen Fisher (King's College London), Dr Niall Boyce (The Lancet Psychiatry) and George Vousden (PLoS One). To watch the webinar recording click below. You can also click through the tabs below to access extra resources and slides from our speakers.
Speaker Presentations and Resources
About George:
George has a research background in psychology and neuroscience, specialising in the use of rodents to better understand human disease. George now leads the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Neuroscience, Mental Health team at PLOS ONE. He is passionate about open science, reproducibility and preventing publication bias.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:03:39 to watch George's presentation
Links:
Twitter: @GeorgeVousden @PLOSONE @PLOS
Web: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
Extra resources:
1. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459211007467
2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00813
3. https://everyone.plos.org/2021/03/30/registered-reports-one-year-at-plos-one/
George has a research background in psychology and neuroscience, specialising in the use of rodents to better understand human disease. George now leads the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Neuroscience, Mental Health team at PLOS ONE. He is passionate about open science, reproducibility and preventing publication bias.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:03:39 to watch George's presentation
Links:
Twitter: @GeorgeVousden @PLOSONE @PLOS
Web: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
Extra resources:
1. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459211007467
2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00813
3. https://everyone.plos.org/2021/03/30/registered-reports-one-year-at-plos-one/
About Niall:
Niall Boyce trained in medicine at Oxford University. He subsequently worked on the University College London psychiatry rotation. Niall joined The Lancet as a Senior Editor in 2010 before moving on to launch The Lancet Psychiatry in 2014. His interests include suicide research, trauma, old age psychiatry, and social and cultural aspects of mental health.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:16:46 to watch Niall's presentation
Links:
Twitter: @TheLancetPsych
Web: www.thelancet.com/psychiatry
Extra resources:
1. equator-network.org
Niall Boyce trained in medicine at Oxford University. He subsequently worked on the University College London psychiatry rotation. Niall joined The Lancet as a Senior Editor in 2010 before moving on to launch The Lancet Psychiatry in 2014. His interests include suicide research, trauma, old age psychiatry, and social and cultural aspects of mental health.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:16:46 to watch Niall's presentation
Links:
Twitter: @TheLancetPsych
Web: www.thelancet.com/psychiatry
Extra resources:
1. equator-network.org
About Helen:
Dr Helen L. Fisher is a Reader in Developmental Psychopathology based in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. She has a strong interdisciplinary background in psychology, social psychiatry, epidemiology, genetics, and epigenetics. Her multidisciplinary programme of research focuses on the role of social, psychological, biological, and wider environmental factors in the development, course, and prevention of mental health problems in children, adolescents, and young adults. She has published 186 journal papers with an h-index of 46 (Scopus). She reviews for a wide range of mental health and victimisation journals and is the Specialist Editor for Psychosis at the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:33:20 to watch Helen's presentation.
Links:
Twitter: @HelenLFisher @KingsIoPPN @TheJCPP
Web: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/helen-fisher
Extra Resources:
Dr Helen L. Fisher is a Reader in Developmental Psychopathology based in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. She has a strong interdisciplinary background in psychology, social psychiatry, epidemiology, genetics, and epigenetics. Her multidisciplinary programme of research focuses on the role of social, psychological, biological, and wider environmental factors in the development, course, and prevention of mental health problems in children, adolescents, and young adults. She has published 186 journal papers with an h-index of 46 (Scopus). She reviews for a wide range of mental health and victimisation journals and is the Specialist Editor for Psychosis at the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry.
Time stamp:
Skip to 00:33:20 to watch Helen's presentation.
Links:
Twitter: @HelenLFisher @KingsIoPPN @TheJCPP
Web: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/helen-fisher
Extra Resources:
- Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry website: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14697610
- Wiley Peer Reviewer training: https://authorservices.wiley.com/Reviewers/journal-reviewers/becoming-a-reviewer.html/peer-review-training.html
- Blog on “Secrets from the Editor’s Portal; Or, Everything You Didn’t Realize you Never Learned About Publishing”: https://getsyeducated.blogspot.com/2021/08/secrets-from-editors-portal-or.html?m=1
- 4. Allen, H., Cury, A., Gaston, T., Graf, C., Wakley, H. and Willis, M. (2019), What does better peer review look like? Underlying principles and recommendations for better practice. Learned Publishing, 32: 163-175. doi:10.1002/leap.1222
- OUP Book Proposal Guidelines
| OUP Book Proposal Guidelines.doc |
Dana Bliss (Executive Editor at the Oxford University Press) kindly supplied us with some slides with tips for early career researchers when publishing. You can have a look at them below:
| Early Career Publishing Tips Slides.pptx |
Susannah Trefgarne (Publisher at SAGE publishing) also kindly supplied us with the link to a SAGE webinar on how to get published which you can access here: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/how-to-get-published-webinar
Panel Discussion
Skip to 00:52:46 to watch the panel discussion with all speakers.