The scientific research and development in Europe is facing a unique challenge from the European Citizen’s Initiative’s (ECI) Stop Vivisection proposal. This proposal calls for “the European Commission to abrogate directive 2010/63/EU on Read More
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In a development that has taken the publishing community by storm, a peer reviewer has been sacked for making sexist remarks on a manuscript. PLOS ONE the journal that was handling the manuscript announced its Read More
The Nikon International Small World Competition announced on April 27 the winners of the fourth annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, which aims at bringing to the fore the cutting-edge techniques of scientific imaging. Read More
How do you express quantities such as speed (in, say, kilometres per hour), concentration (in, say, grams per liter), or dose (in, say, milligrams per kilogram of body weight)? The question has two correct answers. Read More
The lack of transparency in clinical trials has long been a subject of discussion among researchers. Half of the clinical trials conducted in the US go unreported even though US law requires the results of Read More
Case: An author submitted his paper to a journal. After initial screening, the manuscript was sent for peer review. However, when the author received peer review comments, one of the reviewers pointed out that there Read More
Aims & Scope Nature Nanotechnology publishes papers in all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology that are of utmost quality and significance, covering research into the design, characterization and production of structures, devices and systems that Read More
The previous two articles in this series discussed the challenges Polar Research faces in finding two or three willing peer reviewers for submisssions received. Well, Polar Research isn’t alone in experiencing this. Many journal Read More
Aims and Scope Each issue of Epidemiologic Reviews focuses on a particular subject, for example, the obesity epidemic, epidemiologic research on health disparities, and epidemiologic approaches to global health. Epidemiologic Reviews does not publish original Read More
In the first article in this series, I discussed how we go about identifying potential peer reviewers at Polar Research. Next comes the more difficult process of getting two or three to agree to the Read More
