How to Optimize Your Research Process: A step-by-step guide
For researchers across disciplines, the path to uncovering novel findings and insights is often filled with uncertainties. From conceptualizing a viable research question to…
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Upholding Academic Integrity in the Age of AI: Challenges and solutions
In today's academic landscape, one of the most pressing challenges is ensuring academic integrity. With the abundance of information available online, plagiarism and fabricated…
Metrics That Matter: Redefining research success beyond impact factors
In the ever-evolving landscape of academic research publication, success has long been measured by the impact factor (IF), a numerical representation of a journal’s influence…
Understanding the Difference Between Research Ethics and Compliance
Ethics refers to the principles, values, and moral guidelines that guide individual or group behavior to distinguish between right and wrong, and make decisions that align with…
Publishers Reimagining Open Access Funding and Publishing: APCs finally being replaced with innovative models
Recent years have seen a dynamic transformation in the academic publishing landscape, driven by the increasing demand for open access (OA) research articles. As OA publishing…
Understanding Researcher Awareness and Compliance With Ethical Standards – A global study
Ethical considerations are the bedrock of credible research. It lays the foundation of research by building reliability of scholarly pursuits. However, the advent of Artificial…
Democratizing Science: The power of open access in fostering diversity and inclusivity
Open access encompasses a set of principles and practices with the overarching goal of making scientific research across all fields accessible to everyone, while also ensuring that…
Open Science Badges: A novel approach to promoting transparent research data sharing
The changing dynamics of the open science movement is powered by several initiatives. At the heart of this movement lies a novel and innovative system of recognition — open science…
The Year of Open Science: Charting the path to a sustainable future in research
The concept of open science has gained impetus in the recent years, heralding a new era in research and publishing. It represents a paradigm shift in research and knowledge…
Redefining Academic Publishing: Discussing a new metric for time from first submission to acceptance
Publishing research has been a necessary component of academic research; it has long enabled scholars to share their findings and advance the boundaries of human knowledge. Yet,…
Ensuring Ethical Peer Review: A comparative analysis of COPE, ICMJE, and NISO guidelines
Peer review is a cornerstone of the academic and scientific publishing process which ensures the quality, rigor, and credibility of research publications. In an era marked by…
Nurturing Peer Review Excellence: The significance of early career researchers (ECRs)
Recently, I came across a tweet posted by my colleague expressing his frustration as his paper was rejected after 3 months of submission due to the lack of reviewers for its peer…