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Hijacked journals have come back into focus recently, and they can cause more damage than predatory journals to the scholarly record. Learn what they are and how to identify them.

As the world comes together for Peer Review Week, we look at the benefits and challenges of preprints, and whether its growing popularity is…

The peer review process for journal publication is essentially a quality control mechanism. It is a process by which experts evaluate scholarly works, and its…

The truth is that love it or hate it, peer reviews play an integral part of the scholarly publishing process and research authors must learn to live with it. But in the…

Effective networking is an essential skill for a researcher, especially in times like these where almost everything is virtual. Here are the top 10 tips to make networking easy for researchers,…

Some people don’t like reviewing. I don't understand this, because I happen to love it! And after 15 years of reviewing, I have learned that there are a few things which…

Where is the scholarly community headed with open access publishing and how sustainable is its economic model? Open access advocate and former President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers…

Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj are independent science journalists and founders of the unique project “The Life of Science,” a platform that features interviews with and blog posts by women…

For an academic, the significance of both reading and writing literature reviews cannot be overstated. Writing effective literature reviews needs precision, clarity, and critical thinking. It not…

In this article, we provide an overview of the possibilities and concerns of using AI in peer review and how best AI can come together with human expertise.