Publishing News

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…