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The issue of predatory ‘patent trolls’ has been plaguing scientific innovation since decades. But what are patent trolls and how do they operate? Are universities trolls…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 7, 2015
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Many researchers indulge in what is known as ‘outcome switching,’ which means the trial report does not include outcomes that are part of the pre-registration, or…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 14, 2016
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Science is becoming open and how! Gone are the days when researchers and institutions believed in keeping scientific data behind strict and complex institutional…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- June 29, 2015
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The much awaited Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® 2016 has been finally released. The JCR is the world’s most influential resource for evaluating peer…
- Kakoli Majumder
- June 14, 2016
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What does the term "big data" mean? Why is it being considered as an additional paradigm to science? In the recent years, the availability of large volumes of data has…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 14, 2015
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The Fields Medal, which is officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is an esteemed award that is often described as the …
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 13, 2014
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All prestigious journals use some form of peer review, and most academics believe that the purpose of peer review is to maintain the quality and integrity of the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 11, 2017
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Publication bias refers to a phenomenon in scientific reporting whereby authors are more likely to submit and journal editors are more likely to publish studies with …
- Velany Rodrigues
- October 29, 2013
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The impact factor is one of the most discussed topics in the publishing and scientific community. Thomson Reuters assigns most journals a yearly impact factor (IF),…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 8, 2014
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It takes several months to years for a researcher to publish a paper. A commonly cited reason for delayed publication is that the peer reviewers often recommend that…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 31, 2014
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