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You may have read our experts' take on the benefits of individual researchers using Kudos. Last year in October 2015, Kudos also launched a new platform called Kudos for Institutions. This platform will help institutions take a strategic…

The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The Nobel prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.…

There are nearly two million articles published each year, so how will you be able to make your paper stand out and visible to other researchers? With more research being undertaken and published, it is getting increasingly difficult for…

As scientific journals have migrated online and accessing articles digitally has become the norm for most readers of scientific research, various publishers have begun to explore new ways of presenting information. Recently, some journals…

In 2014, fresh out of a successful trading algorithm startup, internet entrepreneur Jesse Spaulding began to think about the academic environment in which science is conducted from a tech enterprise’s perspective. Jesse believes that…

When Vivian Chan was studying for her PhD in Biochemistry, she encountered a problem that most scientists have confronted: how can you keep yourself updated with the enormous amount of new research that is being published every day? In…

Behind each reach study, there are research proposals that are either rejected or accepted, conference papers, posters, PhD theses, project reports, new workflows, and endless drafts that are never seen by anyone outside the research team.…

Arlington, VA, USA: The 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP8) was held at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Virginia on 21st and 22nd September. Organized by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association…

Academic journals are generally subscribed by individual subscribers (researchers, faculty, and industry professionals) as well as institutional subscribers (usually libraries). Recently, these subscribers have been increasingly frustrated…

Publication bias can be observed in the actions of both authors and journal editors. Editors are more likely to publish studies with “positive” results and if those results are counterintuitive, even better. In turn, authors respond to this…