Micropublications fills an essential need for reporting small but rigorous scientific results. We need to keep it going!”
Looking forward to submitting to microPublication again in the future.”
Helped my intern get a Master's scholarship!”
For my lab, micropublications have provided a much needed venue to publish snippets that could be useful to others, but do not tell a complete story.”
microPublication allows us to get our cool, but small findings published for all to see”
For my entire scientific career, I've longed for a publication format that is welcoming to negative data. Who knows how many resources have been wasted repeating experiments with negative outcomes, because such results are difficult to publish. Additionally, as a scientist who runs a small lab on a small budget, I'm very happy that I can now publish smaller studies that don't have an R01 level of narrative and supporting experiments built around them.”
microPublication is an excellent place to publish new findings that don't, by themselves, tell a longer story.”
I only wish something like microPublication had been available to me as an undergraduate and graduate student. These publications have enhanced our research productivity at PUI's and have provided invaluable experience for UG students.”
I love microPublication Biology! I have become an evangelist, talking it up at conferences and department seminars. I have an "ask me about microPublication Biology" sticker on a slide, and have had several people come talk to me about it afterwards.”
I was pleasantly surprised by fast and smooth publishing experience at microPublication Biology.”
Your journal really makes it possible for undergraduates to publish a first author paper and boost their confidence and credentials for graduate/medical school. Thank you!”
I am a big fan of uPubs. There is a lot of power in them for publishing interesting observations that would otherwise never make it out into the world; and they have unparalleled teaching potential for both young authors and novice reviewers.”
Working on emerging biological models, I believe that microPublication Biology can be a powerful tool to enhance scientific progress in models with small communities”
A really great way to make sure that nice results that are valuable to others can be published.”
microPublication Biology allows academics at all levels to be more involved in their own research”
microPublication Biology is an excellent journal in general and an exceptionally helpful journal for faculty members at predominantly undergraduate institutions because it allows us to publish data with students that might otherwise take years to assemble into a larger publication for a different journal.”
microPublication Biology offers a great resource to publish data that otherwise would not be published. This is especially important for students starting their scientific career that work in small projects or that generate data that ends up not being part of a larger story.”
Micropublications are the best! All research deserves a chance to be published and this provides the ideal avenue for smaller pieces that otherwise wouldn't be published!”
Publishing in MicroPublication was a positive experience from start to finish, in particular this was a very supportive environment for my PhD student to write and submit her first first author paper.”
Publishing with microPublication was a seamless experience, and their rigorous peer-review process ensured the high quality and impact of our research.”
microPublication is great for both small undergraduate research projects and for results that can't be neatly tucked into a larger project's publication or that need to be published quickly. Reviewing is a pleasure and also contributes to tenure and promotion portfolios!”
The reviewers and editors where more responsive to questions and comments than any other journal I have published with. Really a breath of fresh air when it comes to the stress of publishing”
microPublication Biology was a great fit for getting our story out into the world and helped multiple students get experience with writing and publishing.”
I have published two papers in microPublication Biology. On both occasions, I found the editors and developers to be knowledgeable, helpful and prompt in replying to queries. The concise format based around a single figure (multiple panels are allowed) is ideal for short papers. I strongly recommend this journal to others.”
microPublication Biology is an ideal forum for students to publish their short scientific stories and get excited about science early in their careers.”
Micropublications offers a straigthforward way to share quality data that otherwise might not see the light of day for many years.”
Quickest, most painless publishing experience that I have had in a long time.”
We had a simple yet important story and microPublication Biology provided a platform to publish a single figure article that does not exist elsewhere.”
Publications with students in my years prior to be evaluated for tenure and promotion were instrumental in achieving tenure and promotion at my institution. Students also highly value the experience of writing and authoring a scientific manuscript. I support the mission and outcome of microPublication Biology and will continue to submit manuscripts to the journal, just as I am happy to review papers for the journal. In my experience, the editorial team is responsive and fosters the publication of quality data even if the data isn't "sexy" or mechanistically deep. This allows for scientific progress and avoids scientists spinning their wheels on refining mechanism for years and years, as is sometimes necessary for other journals.”
A really great initiative in scientific publication.”
Micropubs are an invaluable resource for tiny chunks of novel data, and perhaps even more importantly for replicates and negative data. This is essential for my and my undergraduate students' professional development.”
I love this idea so much! Maybe we will have fewer results languishing in the back of old lab notebooks because "oh we can't get a paper out of that."”