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Unless there is a compelling reason why the answer should be "No", I think it's best scientific practice to share your data where possible. Some possible reasons why not might be because there's ident …

There is no "definitive" source for papers - indeed, in many fields, calls for papers don't actually drive the publication pipeline at all - for example, only a very, very small percentage of my paper …

Money. Or clear evidence that "Credit for your work and your name after your articles" will manifest itself as a benefit to you in some clear way. While the currency of academia is published articl …

It's unlikely but not impossible. To use an example, I once had a colleague reviewing a paper where a high school student produced some results from a commonly used mathematical model in epidemiology …

So you can call them? I've been reached out to by readers before via telephone, particularly reporters trying to get a story together, on one of my more media-friendly papers. It's rare, and phone n …

It means exactly what it says: "Accepted for publication pending revisions". It's accepted...pending the requested revisions. Essentially, they are going to ask for some changes (usually pretty mino …

This will depend wildly on the field and journal in question. In my experience, the main differentiators are the allowable length and the amount of peer review. For example, in my field (Epidemiology) …

Does my paper stand a chance of acceptance after revision? Yes. If it didn't, it would have been rejected. Now how good of a chance it has is another question entirely. Why is it open for rev …

The answer is that we can’t know. The status of the manuscript is exactly what it says on the tin - that it’s awaiting the decision of the EIC. Trying to divine why is a bad idea. It’s possible that …

NIH open access mandates have helped drive the acceptance of open access, the tendency to put money into grants to fund OA publications, etc. which creates a market for new journals. …

There are a couple reasons I can think of why page limits might be imposed: "when papers were published offline, but nowadays"...I've got six physical journals sitting on my desk. Papers are still p …

It has nothing to do with Medicine or Surgery. This will come as a surprise to the large number of medical students, medical and surgical interns, etc. who are interested in getting some experien …

I'll give you my own opinion, as something of an interdisciplinary scientist in a nearby field (I work in mathematical epidemiology) with publications in both places (the conference paper frankly by accident … Those departments will also probably recognize your technical chops either via talking to you, the technical bent of your publications, or a few conference presentations. …

I've encountered this before - as aeismail has said, it might not be "standard" practice (implying most journals do it) but its certainly at the very least common. This is often intended to provide f …

As JeffE has suggested, some confusion with reading papers is both expected and desirable - I can always tell which paper's I've read closely, versus skimmed for a little bit of information, because …