The United Kingdom is setting up a research integrity committee to monitor research misconduct investigations conducted by the nation’s universities. The decision to establish the new committee was made upon the recommendation of an Read More
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Over the past few years, China’s focus on scientific and technological advancement has catapulted the country to the top spot for publishing the most amount of scientific literature. Economically, China is one of the Read More
It’s that time of the month again when we bring to you some of the most happening discussions from the scholarly publishing world. Academics raised interesting questions like: Is it time for academia to Read More
A Russian website that offers authorship in research papers accepted for publication for a price was recently uncovered by Web of Science, a citation indexing service. In three years of operation, the site 123mi.ru Read More
Springer Nature and ResearchGate have announced an extension of their pilot project to share articles from several of the publisher’s journals on the academic networking site ResearchGate. An extremely positive feedback in the initial Read More
Researchers at the University of California (UC) are left without access to Elsevier’s latest articles as the Dutch publisher cut off the university’s access last week. The university’s subscription had lapsed at Read More
In recent years, work–life balance has become a major focus in industrialized economies for both organizations and their employees. In a brief survey of the existing literature conducted by Professor Hideo Noda from the Read More
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) recently adopted the Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Countries (GCC) to counter the unethical practice of ethics dumping. UCLan is the first European university and the Read More
The Hungarian parliament passed a law on July 2 that will transfer the control of academic institutions under the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), the country’s oldest scientific institute, to the government, in spite of Read More
When research impact was introduced as one of the assessment criteria for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the main way universities were asked to account for their impact was in the form of case studies. These Read More
