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Argues that working in multidisciplinary teams does more in bringing separate disciplines together than any academic intervention.
Has the Nobel bug bitten you yet? We are just 20 days away from the announcement of 2015 Nobel Prizes. Starting this week, through mid-October, we will bring you…
Meet Stacy Konkiel, Outreach & Engagement Manager at Altmetric, a company that tracks online activity relating to scholarly literature. Previously, Stacy was the…
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) announced the winners of their annual awards on September 10, 2015. Kudos has won the ALPSP…
With the rise in instances of misconduct in the academic publishing industry, everyone is aware that authors, journals, and editors have a joint responsibility to ensure…
Dr. Xuejun Sun is a world leading researcher in hydrogen and hyperbaric oxygen studies. He has published 200+ peer reviewed papers on the effects of oxygen, hydrogen,…
The Lasker Awards are one of the most prestigious science awards and are also called the “American Nobels.” On September 8, the laureates of the 2015 Lasker Awards were…
The identity of the founders of PubPeer, the popular and controversial post-publication peer review website, was until recently shrouded in mystery. However, the…
This is a report of the 2nd Asian Science Editors' Conference and Workshop, organized by the Council of Asian Science Editors (CASE), in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 20-22,…
The winners of the 2015 Eureka Prizes were announced on August 26. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are annual awards that reward “excellence in the fields of…