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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for inventing blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) which enabled the…
- Vipul Manchala
- October 8, 2014
This post, co-authored by Sylwia B. Ufnalska and Arjan K.S. Polderman, drafts a list of golden rules for editors.
- Sylwia Ufnalska
- October 8, 2014
Retraction is a way of alerting the research community of a paper’s questionable credibility. However, retracted papers continue to have an ‘afterlife’, in the form of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 1, 2014
Over the years in Brazil, open access has emerged as a favorable solution to help increase the visibility of Brazilian researchers in the global research arena, and the…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- September 12, 2014
Plagiarism is often one of the commonly cited reasons behind retraction of scientific papers. However, should plagiarism in any form necessarily result in journal…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 12, 2014
Dr. Caroline Sutton is an active expert on open access publishing and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing. She is also Director at Infrastructure Services for Open Access…
- Editage Insights
- September 4, 2014
What reservations do authors have towards using open access journals? How do open access journals manage peer review quality? In this second segment of her interview, Dr…
- Editage Insights
- August 31, 2014
In recent years, many journal editorial departments have begun to employ freelance editors rather than an exclusively in-house team. Although a freelance editing model…
- Editage Insights
- August 31, 2014
This post discusses the article Why Open Access for Brazil (2008) by Alma Swan, which takes a deeper look at barriers that prevent Brazilian scientific research from…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- August 26, 2014
Why is stem cell research surrounded by scandals and why do the controversies have serious implications on science? Dr. Xuejun Sun, experienced researcher and Associate…
- Xuejun Sun
- August 26, 2014