The recent incidents in which authors manipulated the peer review system of The Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry and BioMed Central in order to get published have brought into the limelight an issue Read More
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The recent case of a defamation suit filed against PubPeer an online forum for anonymous, post-publication peer review—has created a buzz in the scientific community. The lawsuit has been filed by Fazlul Sarkar, a Read More
Case: We received a paper for our pre-publication peer review service with a request for providing the service at discounted rates. When going through the payment procedures, we realized that the person who had approached Read More
Case: While reviewing an author’s manuscript, our publication expert made the following observations: 1. The study documented a novel surgical procedure that was complicated and had high animal mortality. Such research is usually done on Read More
Well before citations and impact factors became important, one form of honoring scientists was to associate their names with their discoveries and inventions, as in Boyle’s law, the Planck constant, Petri dishes, and Erlenmeyer Read More
