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Peer review rigging—a growing concern for the scientific publishing system—has led journals to retract several hundereds of papers. Apart from discussions on whether…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 15, 2017
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof were awarded the 2013 Nobel…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 24, 2013
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” Eric Betzig of the Howard…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 9, 2014
The STAP stem cells situation, as I write this down, represents a can of worms whose lid has been pried open by scores of scholarly commentators, most of them active…
- Satyajit Rout
- March 11, 2014
Several newspapers today have published shocking news about Elsevier’s Editorial Management System (EES) having been hacked into recently. The popular blog
- Editage Insights
- October 16, 2013
Today, computers are used in pretty much every field of scientific research. Computers are ubiquitous in our personal lives as well, and it's hard to imagine a time when…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 24, 2013
Over 60 German academic institutions have annulled their subscription contract with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier, which will leave thousands of researchers without…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 23, 2016
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to the French economist Jean Tirole in recognition of his analysis of market power and regulation. Tirole is chairs the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 14, 2014
Europe’s Competitiveness Council has declared that all online research papers supported by public and public-private funding will be made freely accessible by the year…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 31, 2016
Nature Publishing Group announced in an editorial that it will soon offer authors an option to opt for double-blind peer review at the time of submission.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 19, 2015