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Roles and Responsibilities in Publishing

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In the community of researchers, the tasks are always divided. The counting starts with the authors and finishes with the readers. Let's say an article is like a room having four pillars. These four pillars can be categorized as follows:  1. Authors: Authors and within the list of authors, the first and corresponding authors are the leading persons. It does not mean that other authors are not important. Remember in collaboration, like a group activity, all authors have their importance the same as the pillars of a room. If anyone of the pillars is defective, the whole room will be affected. The ingredients that can make this pillar strong are the intellectual capacities of the authors, their knowledge about ethical morals, their attitude, their research ability, and above all their grip in the field of study. All these ingredients will work as concrete in the construction of this pillar. If you drop the quantity of these ingredients, the quality of the pillar and consequently the q...

Publishing is an art: Publish your thoughts and let nature feel proud of you.

  Sooner or later , an academic person has to enter the research domain. Once, you enter this domain, and you get addicted to it, there is no chance to have an exit. It becomes your habit to think, criticize, innovate and publish. Publishing is as easy as sending text messages and it is as difficult as writing a resignation letter for your favorite job. It is easy because it reflects your thoughts, your criticism of your own mindfulness, and your innovative capabilities. For sure, everybody has the same size brain and therefore, they have the guts to publish their stuff. Difficult because you have to overcome your feelings, your emotions, you have to suppress your heart through the mind. Difficult because not all have the courage to oppose their own mind.  Why publish?  When someone starts working on anything, there comes many questions in mind: why? what would be the benefit? what would be the impact? and a good researcher has to answer these questions to him/herself bef...