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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a website that lists open access journals, has announced that all the journals listed in their directory will need to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 11, 2014
Dr. Tim Hunt is renowned for his work on cell cycle regulation for which he won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Dr. Lee Hartwell and Dr. Paul…
- Clarinda Cerejo
- September 25, 2015
Macmillan Science and Education, the London-based publisher of Nature and Scientific American, will merge with one of the world’s largest science publishers, Berlin…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 16, 2015
Today, science is progressing rapidly and new findings come to light every day. In such a scenario, replication studies could prove to be an important part of scientific…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
Scientific reporting is inclined towards publishing positive findings, and research that reports negative results is usually frowned upon. However, recognizing the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 27, 2015
The man behind the famous Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers and author of the Scholarly Open Access blog, Jeffrey Beall, gives useful tips on how authors can identify…
- Editage Insights
- June 5, 2014
Traditional metrics for measuring scholarly impact, such as the impact factor of the journal, h-index, etc., are familiar to all researchers. But although still very…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
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
Wouldn’t be interesting to know how the general public perceives science and what their views are about researchers?
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 28, 2014
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