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Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) has sent massive shockwaves throughout the world. While the economists and politicians are worried about the economic…
Irreproducibility of published results is considered a modern-day crisis that science is facing. However, the lack of a commonly agreed definition of reproducibility and…
The economic crisis in Greece has led to many speculations about the future of the country's science and research landscape. This post takes a look at the effect of the…
Peer review and quantitative metrics are the two most prominent methods of evaluating the quality and impact of research. However, the recent surge in the importance…
Caroline Banton is a professional writer and editor with 15 years of experience in the field of scholarly writing. She has served as an Assistant Editor for the in-house…
Peer review is considered by most scholars to be a reliable method of evaluating research qualitatively. But what are the perspectives of authors, peer reivewers, and…
In a tragic incident, a clinical trial of an experimental drug being conducted in France went wrong, causing the death of one volunteer and neurological complications in…
Donald Samulack, PhD (President, U.S. Operations, Cactus Communications and Editage) presented and launched an industry-wide call-to-action titled “Predatory Author…
On October 5, the Nobel Committee announced that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura, and…
The open access (OA) movement is gaining worldwide consensus as more and more countries are joining the effort to make research freely available.