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More than six months into his presidency, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has not yet appointed a science advisor and has displayed no definitive…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 19, 2017
The scientific community is steadily moving toward open science. Even publishers are joining this “open” trend. China, being the country with the second largest research…
- Sheng Fen-Ku
- October 23, 2015
Did you know about these trends in scholarly communication industry? Highlights from 2018 STM report
Did you know that in 2018, around 3 million articles were published? That the accessibility to content is now at its record high today? The scholarly communication…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 9, 2018
With more than 2.5 million new research articles published annually, it has become increasingly important to find ways to make research findings stand out. Universities…
- Neha Mirchandani
- December 21, 2017
A recent study suggests that the first author of a paper must be held accountable if evidence of misconduct is found in the paper. Academics argue this approach may not…
- Fatima Qureshi
- May 24, 2019
ORCID (Open Research and Contributor Identifier), a non-profit, community-based initiative aimed at creating unique identifiers for researchers, conducted a survey to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 29, 2015
Chinese authorities recently held a press conference to share updates on the 107 retracted papers case involving Chinese authors and institutions. This infographic…
- Andrea Hayward
- August 2, 2017
One of the most challenging problems that academia is dealing with is misconduct in research. However, tackling the ever-increasing incidents of misconduct is…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 22, 2016
Science funding in China has all along been weighed down by outdated administrative rules and regulations making it tedious for scientists and diverting their time away…
- Kakoli Majumder
- June 9, 2016
Argues that working in multidisciplinary teams does more in bringing separate disciplines together than any academic intervention.
- Yateendra Joshi
- September 17, 2015