v · academic

publish

/ˈpʌblɪʃ/PUB·lish

Band 5-6task2speaking

to prepare and issue written work (such as research or articles) for public access, especially in journals or books

Examples

The team plans to publish their results in a peer‑reviewed journal next year.

She published several papers on climate change while at university.

It's important to publish negative findings as well as positive ones to avoid publication bias.

Band 8 sentence

After peer review and revision, our manuscript was published in a top international journal, which significantly increased its academic impact.

Collocations

  • publish findings
  • be published in
  • publish a paper

Word family

publication npublisher npublished adj / v (past)

Common mistakes

We need to public our results soon.We need to publish our results soon.

She publish three studies last year.She published three studies last year.

Say it for a higher band

5tell6report7+publish

Synonyms

release

publicize

Easily confused

publicize

The charity publicized its campaign widely to attract more donors.

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