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The Opinion Piece: How Blind Should Peer Review Be?
In the first of The Opinion Piece series, editorial intern Joe Davies explores the issues involved in anonymous peer review, and asks: how anonymous should it be?   The peer review process is the back-bone of the scientific method. If an…
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Policy update: Excess page charge for MNRAS papers exceeding 20 pages
Papers have traditionally been published in MNRAS with no page charges for the authors. However, the rapid increase in the number of submissions in recent years, and the rise in the total number of pages published per annum -- with its cost…
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A summer internship at the RAS
Yasmin Chowdhury joined the team at Burlington House over the summer – and discovered what it takes to get papers into the journals, and science out to policy-makers.   I have always been interested in science from a young age. I find…
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Welcome to the new RAS Journals section!
Welcome to the new and improved Journals section! Here you can find details of the two main journals published by the RAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Geophysical Journal International), as well as the in-house magazine of…