How to Publish a Single-Case Experimental Design Study

A manuscript comes back from review. The methods are sound, the data are clean, and the reviewer’s first comment is: “This is an interesting case, but with n=1 and no control group, the design does not support the conclusions.” The problem is not the research. It is that the reviewer read a single-case experimental design as a case report, and nobody in the manuscript told…

AI Watermark Policy in Academic Publishing: How It Affects Your Submission Journey (2026)

On August 11, 2026, Anthropic told the world that Claude would start marking its own output, weaving an invisible signal into every piece of generated text and attaching signed metadata to supported image files. Anthropic framed the move as compliance with a single article of European law that had taken effect nine days earlier. Researchers everywhere woke up that week to a live, moving set…