Intelligent Crowd Peer Review Successfully Tested
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…
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Crackdown on Fake Chinese Clinical Trials
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…
Journal Citation Reports 2017 Reveals Most Influential Journals
If you are a seasoned researcher, you already know the answer to this question; however, if you are just starting out in the field of research, you might not understand the…
BioRN: Biology Research Network Launched by SSRN
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has recently launched a new specialty network specifically for biology research. SSRN is host to approximately 625,000 papers and 750,000…
QS Releases World University Rankings for 2018
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company founded in 1990 by Nunzio Quacquarelli and Matt Symonds. QS provides students with materials, events, and contacts to help them with…
B2J: A New Submission Route for BioRxiv
Researchers are heading in a new direction in the attempt to publish their scientific research papers. Given the time involved in the peer review process, submissions going back…
Chinese Scientists Increase Global Research Collaboration
China is steadily moving towards playing a major role in the global economy. Changes to its economic policy, starting in the late 1970’s, initiated a shift away from isolationism.…
APS Journals and CERN Expand Open Access Initiative
The American Physical Society (APS) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have signed an agreement that will see high energy physics articles in Physical Review…
Karl Deisseroth Takes the 2017 Else Kröner Fresenius Prize
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Prof. Karl Deisseroth, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, is the recent winner of the Else Kröner Fresenius…
Strategic Partnership With Clarivate Analytics Set To Boost Russian Research
Recently, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has entered into a multi-year agreement with Clarivate Analytics. This will result in the number of scientific research…
Citation Metrics and its Impact on Society
Scientists know that their research carries great value for society. However, the impact is not only a reflection of the nature of the discovery itself; but rather, research makes…
Harvard Medical School – Research Misconduct Leads to $10 Million Settlement
In 2014, the American Heart Association, the parent company of Circulation, retracted a cardiology research paper published in its journal in 2012 entitled “Cardiomyogenesis in the…