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While the advocates of open science stress on transparency and accessibility, there is a growing sentiment among some scientific folk about the need for nondisclosure of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 21, 2016
With science becoming increasingly competitive, every published paper is seen as a step up the ladder of success. Thus, blocking or delaying publication of an academic…
- Kakoli Majumder
- January 8, 2016
While the phenomenon of retraction has received a lot of attention from the scientific community, what has not received enough eyeballs are retraction notices. Most…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 7, 2016
ORCID (Open Research and Contributor Identifier), a non-profit, community-based initiative aimed at creating unique identifiers for researchers, conducted a survey to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 29, 2015
Researchers scramble to boost their publication record by targeting to publish in high impact factor journals as their career advancement depends on it. Consequentially,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 16, 2015
Undergoing the process of scientific publication is inevitable for researchers, but most find this a daunting task as it is long drawn and effort intensive. After…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 27, 2015
How authors, reviewers, and editors perceive peer review: An overview of the Taylor & Francis report
Peer review is considered by most scholars to be a reliable method of evaluating research qualitatively. But what are the perspectives of authors, peer reivewers, and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 14, 2015
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As the focus of research is shifting to resolving challenges such as climate change, food and water crisis, research is transcending the boundaries of disciplines. But…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 4, 2015
The scientific community is steadily moving toward open science. Even publishers are joining this “open” trend. China, being the country with the second largest research…
- Sheng Fen-Ku
- October 23, 2015
For many young researchers Nobel Laureates are like celebrities who can only be emulated from a distance. Every year, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings give about 500…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- October 15, 2015