Kakoli Majumder

This is our anniversary month, and as part of this year’s celebrations, we bring you the team’s favorite picks for different content formats. In this post, let’s take a look at the team's favorite Q…

Open access is the way forward for scholarly communication as it gives research maximum outreach. However, many researchers are not keen on publishing open access largely due to some misconceptions…

Open access is steadily gaining momentum in academia, but many young researchers are still unclear about it. What is open access? What are the different venues for publishing open access? This…

Over the last few years, numerous digital tools have made their way into the scholarly world to help researchers juggle with the multiple roles they have to play. This post introduces some of the…

Apart from prestige and recognition, the Nobel Prize confers on its winners a significant cash award. What do the Nobel Laureates do with their prize money? Do they make expensive purchases for…

When a peer reviewer receives an invitation to review, they are expected to disclose potential conflicts of interest. But some reviewers fail to be transparent and misuse the system to serve their…

The Editage Insights team participated in the 2017 meeting of the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) at the Carlton Palace Hotel in Deira, Dubai, on August 13 and 14. The meeting was attended by…

Journal editors sometimes ask authors to cite a few relevant articles from the journal to increase their citation count. But what if the editor hands over a whole list of irrelevant articles from the…

China has declared a policy of zero tolerance towards academic misconduct following the mass retraction of 107 articles by Chinese authors from Tumor Biology last month, and some more recent…

Synopsis: Often, predatory journals send email invitations to authors to submit their articles and lure them into paying APCs with assurances of publication. However, they do not always live up to…