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In early 2020, Nature announced an opportunity for authors to publish their peer-review exchanges with reviewers as an attempt to bring transparency to the peer review…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 8, 2022
An analysis of more than 37,000 articles reveals that authors from low-income countries opt to publish in paywalled journals over open access journals. Rafael Zenni,…
- Malvika Gaur
- February 25, 2022
The UK government is increasing domestic public investment by at least 40% across the North, Midlands, South West, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a part of…
- Malvika Gaur
- February 4, 2022
Indonesia is a world leader in the number of free-to-read published research journals. Know what this means for the research ecosystem in Indonesia.
- The Conversation
- October 18, 2020
Predatory author services are the newest avatar of predatory publishers, but with the same malicious intent: to deceive new, inexperienced researchers. With the backing…
- Irfan Syed
- June 24, 2020
An in-depth look at how preprints are helping accelerate research around COVID-19, including challenges and measures to overcome them
- Irfan Syed
- May 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the world. In an attempt to stop the transmission of infections, academia has taken several tough steps. While these measures…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 2, 2020
Over the past few years, mental health in academia has begun to receive more and more attention—a welcome development since mental health concerns among researchers had…
- Mriganka Awati
- January 30, 2020
An in-depth look at several recent initiatives taken by various Indian stakeholders to improve the quality of research in the country
- Irfan Syed
- December 24, 2019
I became curious about what kept researchers motivated on their journey. So I reached out to a few of them, looking for answers to a couple of simple questions: What…
- Aayati Sengupta
- November 27, 2019