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A recently concluded investigation by the Review Board set up by the Executive Board of the Leibniz Association has found Prof. Dr. Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of research…

The process of research seems simple from the outside: read, experiment, publish, and repeat. Yet, paywalls formed by national or cultural groups is a barrier to scholarly…

Scientific research generates an immense amount of data. It is critical to not only make this data available to research community but also use it to decide on the next…

The journal impact factor, initially conceived by Dr. Eugene Garfield as a way to measure the quality of scholarly journals, has frequently been misused. Impact factors are used as…

It is indeed surprising to realize that a new generation of researchers has grown up believing that doing research online has always been the status quo. This new breed of graduate…

In the ongoing battle between scientific publisher and websites with a guerilla open access policy, a New York court has ruled that these pirate websites owe Elsevier $15 million.…

Research papers are evidently quite difficult to interpret and understand especially for an audience that is not very familiar with the research topic. In order to make scientific…

Innovation is a hallmark of humankind. Recently, Reuters announced its second annual ranking of Asia Pacific’s most innovative universities. Using research paper citations and…

A “repository” is a receptacle in which data are kept and made available. In academic publishing, many major universities and its libraries have their own repositories for academic…

Image credits: Nature News Scientists can now offer “preprints” to their colleagues for review, rating, and comment. These preprints are available online from the bioRxiv…

Synlett, an international chemistry journal published by Thieme, has successfully tried a new form of peer review aimed to make manuscript assessment faster and fairer. The…

A year-long review conducted by China’s State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), has found that 80% of the data in 1,622 clinical trials were either incomplete, untraceable, or…