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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for inventing blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) which enabled the…
- Vipul Manchala
- October 8, 2014
The journal PLOS ONE sacked a peer reviewer for making sexist remarks on a manuscript. The editor of the journal has also been blamed for the oversight. The peer…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- May 5, 2015
On December 8, publishing giant Elsevier announced the launch of a new metric CiteScore, a set of metrics that measure the quality of academic journals. At a time when…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 16, 2016
On August 18, Springer announced that it has retracted 64 articles from 10 of its subscription-based journals after discovering that the reviews of these papers were…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 18, 2015
The Nobel Prize, established by the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, is coveted and acknowledged by scientists worldwide as the individuals upon whom this award is…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 8, 2014
London, January 27, 2015 – Editage, a leading provider of editorial and publication support services for the global research community and the flagship brand of Cactus…
- Editage Insights
- January 27, 2015
Editage announced its commitment to providing a seamless manuscript submission experience for authors by becoming the first to adopt Aries’ manuscript “ingest”…
- Editage Insights
- January 22, 2015
Elsevier's updated journal article sharing and hosting policy that provides specific guidelines about how papers can be shared at each stage of the publication process…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 2, 2015
Highlights the case of a "reviewing ring" that eventually led to as many as 60 papers being retracted and offers a few tips on being alert to the possible misuse of a…
- Yateendra Joshi
- July 17, 2014
Peer review rigging—a growing concern for the scientific publishing system—has led journals to retract several hundereds of papers. Apart from discussions on whether…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 15, 2017