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China is increasingly launching English journals, a report says

English language journals are rapidly being launched in China by Chinese universities and publishers, according to The Publishers Association’s new report PA Market…
China is increasingly launching English journals, a report says

Latest data shows that Sci-Hub thrives despite infrastructure losses

Sci-Hub, the site that provides free access to pirated academic papers, hit a bumpy road last year when it was ordered to pay damages worth $15 million to Elsevier and…
Latest data shows that Sci-Hub thrives despite infrastructure losses

13 Takeaways from the 2017 Peer Review Congress in Chicago

Here, I share some personal observations and thoughts while attending the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication in Chicago, which…
13 Takeaways from the 2017 Peer Review Congress in Chicago

Chilean researchers protest the lack of governmental support to science

Unhappy with the way science is being governed in the country, Chilean researchers resorted to street protests and published an open letter that criticized the…
Chilean researchers protest the lack of governmental support to science

Dutch organization launches world’s first national fund for replication studies

The Netherlands’ largest research funding agency, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), has announced the launch of a €3 million grants programme…
Dutch organization launches world’s first national fund for replication studies

Increase in female first authorship in top medical papers

A recently published paper titled “Trends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014)” reported that…
Increase in female first authorship in top medical papers

DOAJ delists about 3,300 journals for failing to reapply

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) announced that it has delisted about 3,300 titles in order to ensure that questionable and inactive publishers do not find…
DOAJ delists about 3,300 journals for failing to reapply

Israel outruns South Korea, becomes world's most research intensive economy

As per Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data on the investments made by the OECD countries in research and development (R&D) in the year…
Israel outruns South Korea, becomes world's most research intensive economy

Biotech firm faces a record $3.5-million fine for animal welfare violations

Santa Cruz Biotechnology, a large biotech company and a major antibody provider, has been fined $3.5-million by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for violating…
Biotech firm faces a record $3.5-million fine for animal welfare violations

World's largest biomedical imaging study launched by UK Biobank

The UK Biobank, a nonprofit biological data repository, announced its plan to create the biggest database of scanned images of internal organs. The project aims to use…