Fake Peer Review Leads to Massive Retractions
The cancer journal, Tumor Biology, has uncovered 107 papers that had undergone a fake peer review process and retracted all of them. This retraction is the largest yet by a single…
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PLOS Partners With Protocols.io—Methods Reimagined
Publication is a critical part of the academic research life cycle. A typical research paper has a section for materials and methods. However, considering the word and style limits…
The World of Academic Publishing
With the growth of the Internet in the 1980s and 90s, academic publishing businesses found it difficult to stay afloat. Newspapers had a difficult time keeping paid subscriptions…
Open Science Fuels Growth of Next-generation Metrics
Open science is an effort that aims to make scientific research, data, and its distribution accessible to all. This involves practices like publishing open research and campaigning…
Rise of Article Retractions in South Korea
Since its inception in 1997, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has grown into an international body that offers guidance to journal editors, publishers, and peer-reviewers…
Open Access Movement Grows Rapidly in Latin America
With the emergence of electronic media, many significant changes in how researchers communicated their works came to fruition. Researchers recognized their limitations regarding…
Sting Operation Reveals Fake Editor Appointed by Predatory Publishers
According to a study carried out by Katarzyna Pisanski and colleagues, forty-eight academic journals were willing to give a fake editor a position on their editorial board. This…
Is Elsevier Committed to Open Access?
The Dutch state secretary of education, Sander Dekker, wants all publications from Dutch scientists to be available under Gold Open Access by 2024. This would require that the…
Research Funding Crisis Deeply Affects Brazilian Scientists
Science, and the scientists that do the research, need funding. This money may come from public and private sources, but research that is basic/fundamental and not immediately…
Cell Press Introduces Sneak Peek Initiative
Cell Press has its beginnings in 1974 when Benjamin Lewin founded Cell. Since then Cell Press has gone on to publish more than 30 academic research journals. Cell Press is an…
Price of Punctuations: The Ten-Million Dollar Comma
Punctuations are a unique aspect of writing and should not be misused under any circumstances. When you think that punctuations don’t matter, remember the Oakhurst Dairy and the…
Japan’s Economic Challenges Stagnate Scientific Output
According to recent reports, academic research coming out of Japan has been declining over the past decade. Both the Nature Index database and Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science…