Irfan Syed

This post presents the key results from the Grant Review in Focus report, a global survey by Publons on grant peer revieweing

A look at this year's Nobel Prize winners in the sciences along with highlights of their distinguished achievements

The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is a newly formed international consortium that will aim to provide insights to individuals, organizations, and governments on global research and research…

Cambridge University Press launches Experimental Results, a journal that will publish only results of experiments in various STM disciplines. The journal aims to improve reproducibility of experiment…

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has resolved to reduce and eventually eliminate the need and funding of animal-based research for testing the toxicity of chemicals.

Sense about Science's Peer Review Survey 2019 unveils interesting points and insights about the peer review system. It also lays down several action paths to make the system even more robust.

The 2019 Lasker Awards were announced recently. This year's awards recognize contributions in the fields of cellular immunology, women's oncology, and childhood immunization.

Elsevier is investigating potential cases of coercive citation in papers reviewed by a section of its academics.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it will be supporting Plan S, an initiative to make research publications fully open access (OA).

German consortium Project DEAL has struck the world's largest open access agreement with Springer Nature, which marks an increasing push toward open access by researchers, readers, and publishers …