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Writing on research workflows, publishing, and the craft of scholarly writing — from the team building Dissertatio, for researchers who ship papers.
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Writing an AI-use disclosure your journal will accept
The disclosure statement is a paragraph, not a philosophy. What the major publishers actually require, where the statement goes, why copy editing is exempt, and a fill-in-the-blanks template you can adapt for Nature, Elsevier, and most other venues.
Dissertatio Team · July 13, 2026 · 8 min read
Reproducibility
A reproducibility checklist for computational research
Reproducibility is not one heroic act at the end — it is a handful of small commitments made while the work is live. A practical checklist: pre-registration, frozen and checksummed data, code availability, environment pinning, and limitations stated honestly.
July 9, 2026 · 9 min read
Writing tools
Version control for manuscripts: what researchers actually need from “track changes”
Track changes was designed for one editor and one document, not twelve co-authors and three journal revisions. What manuscript version control should borrow from software — named versions, real diffs, attribution, review states — and what it should refuse to copy.
July 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Publishing
Choosing an AI disclosure posture journals will accept
Journal policies on AI assistance have converged on a few stable principles — no AI authorship, disclose generative use, and a widely copied exemption for copy editing. How to pick a defensible disclosure posture before drafting starts, and write the statement from logs instead of memory.
July 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Workflows
From idea to publication: a structured workflow for research teams
Most research teams have a rigorous methodology and an improvised writing process. A stage-by-stage workflow for taking a manuscript from research question to submission package — with the handoffs, review gates, and version discipline that make it repeatable.
July 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Research integrity
The fabricated-references crisis
Fabricated citations went from one in 2,828 papers in 2023 to one in 277 by early 2026, and more than 100 hallucinated references passed review at NeurIPS 2025. What happened, why peer review misses it, and how verification-first tooling responds.
July 1, 2026 · 10 min read
Put the workflow into practice.
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