Peer review has attracted the lion’s share of attention in recent discussions around whether the academic publishing system is broken. Does peer review still work the way it is meant to? Is it rigorous Read More
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It’s been about a month since I’ve posted here. Why? I’ve been reading instead of writing. I’ve been reviewing SIGCSE papers, ICSE papers, IEEE Read More
The 2019 Lasker Awards were announced on September 11. The awards, celebrating the legacy of Mary and Albert Lasker, an American couple who advocated the public support and funding of research, honor exemplary contributions in the research, Read More
Elsevier is investigating potential manipulative citations by its peer reviewers. Of the nearly 55,000 academics who review for Elsevier’s various journals, the publisher has found that close to 500 have consistently had their studies cited in Read More
Semiconductors are substances that have a conductivity between that of conductors and insulators. Due to their unique properties of conducting current only in specific conditions, they can be controlled or modified to suit our needs. Read More
Are you excited for Peer Review Week 2019? We definitely are! As you may know, Peer Review Week is a global event dedicated to peer review for the significant role it plays in scholarly publishing. The Read More
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced its decision to join cOAlition S and back Plan S, an initiative by a group of research funding organizations and charitable funders to make research publications open access (Read More
As a grad student with an invisible chronic illness, I have both the luxury and the misfortune of being able to blend in with everyone else. I go to the same classes. I sit in Read More
Editage’s parent company, Cactus Communications, a global scholarly, medical communication and technology solutions company, launched PubSURE–the first marketplace that brings together researchers and journals across all STEM and HSS disciplines to make global Read More
We are at the end of an exciting month marked by interesting and thought-provoking discussions in academia. If, however, you were unable to keep a tab on the goings-on in scholarly communication and academic publishing Read More
