In a move to reinforce its long standing support towards data sharing, Nature has announced a new policy mandating data-availability statements. From this month onwards, all papers accepted for publication in Nature and 12 other Nature Read More
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Early career researchers, though young and lacking publication experience, are strongly motivated to push their way through the academic publishing world—a world full of frustrations, ups and downs, and more frequent disappointments than successes. Read More
Last year, the case of research misconduct involving Dong-Pyou Han made headlines. Han, a biomedical researcher from Iowa State University, was sentenced to 57 months of prison and fined $7.2 million for falsifying results in federally funded Read More
On August 30, the U.S. Patent Office issued a patent titled “Online peer review system and method” to the leading academic publisher Elsevier. The patent revolves around Elsevier’s online article-transfer service, which is used Read More
On August 10 and 11, 2016, Clarinda Cerejo, Editor-in-Chief of Editage Insights, and I attended the 2016 meeting of the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) at the Carlton Palace Hotel in Deira, Dubai. The meeting was attended by 180 Read More
Exactly a year ago, we shared our first good reads post to bring you up to speed with the most recent discussions in academic publishing and scholarly communications. We’d confessed that, “Our team of Read More
A previous article explained how you can express quantities such as speed, concentration, or dose in your manuscript. Apart from these, expressions of rates – milligrams per litre, kilometres per hour, and tonnes per hectare, for Read More
Aims and scope Nature Methods publishes “novel methods and significant improvements to tried-and-tested basic research techniques in the life sciences’ and is ‘aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience of academic and industry researchers actively involved Read More
In my previous article, I had explained that it is an acceptable practice to rewrite content from a PhD thesis or dissertation and publish it as a journal article. However, you have to remember that Read More
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged OMICS Group, Inc. for deceiving researchers and academicians about publication fees, peer review process, and the nature of its publications. On its Read More
