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Whenever we think about predation in the context of scholarly publishing, we habitually point a finger at publishers and journals that are willing to publish any piece…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 22, 2017
Research is now primarily a collaborative and often an interdisciplinary endeavor. However, this has given rise to the trend of mass authorship and fractional authorship…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 13, 2015
Most of us are aware that women are underrepresented in academia. At different stages of life, distinct social-psychological factors contribute to the high attrition…
- Dr. Sudeshna Dasgupta
- October 24, 2017
Traditionally the province of rogue individuals, academic misconduct has entered a new era in which third parties are exploiting submission loopholes to manipulate the…
- Duncan MacRae
- May 31, 2016
Globally, science and technology is making great strides. Remarkably, developing nations are fast catching up with the developed nations in terms of R&D investment,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 10, 2016
Open science is zealously propagated by academicians in a bid to make scientific data and research widely accessible to the public. Apart from the need for researchers…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 3, 2015
A general view about researchers is that they are a recluse community that seldom leaves their labs and the ivory tower. This has changed over the past few years. Across…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 22, 2017
Rejection is part of academic publishing, and it is by no means an indication of the quality of study or the researcher's worth. This post discusses an anecdote…
- Nitin Nair
- February 22, 2017
Early career researchers struggle to receive grants because granting committees are known to favor esteemed and more established researchers. Does scientific innovation…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 26, 2015
Scientific research lies at the core of Japan, the third-largest economy in the world. Since 2000, Japanese researchers have won 17 Nobel Prizes in the sciences, which…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 27, 2017