Smart Data Sharing: Which License Should you Choose?
Currently, researchers are finding that most funding agencies, organizations, and some professional journals, require data sharing as a condition of grants, awards, or for…
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Should Data Sets Be Peer Reviewed?
Scientists publish peer-reviewed articles frequently–they make breakthroughs in research and share them with the world. These research projects also require data collection;…
How to Publish Your Medical Research in a Reputed Journal
High-quality research is essential for the development of any field of science, and this is particularly true for the medical sciences. Reputed academic journals play an important…
Intellectual Property Rights in Corporate-Sponsored Research
Intellectual property (IP) is the knowledge and output that results from intellectual activity. In terms of research, IP can be input, such as ideas, findings, or teaching…
LaTeX: Is it the Standard for Scientific Document Preparation?
LaTeX is a document preparation system based on a typesetting system called “TeX”, developed by Donald Knuth (Professor Emeritus at Stanford University) in 1974. The word TeX finds…
Academic Piracy: Revolution or Robbery?
Academic publishers are largely responsible for the production of textbooks and journals. Typically, these publishers make money by selling subscriptions to their journals and…
Learning to Avoid Journal Rejection
In academic publishing, journal rejection rates can vary widely. According to the American Psychological Association’s 2013 report, its top journals averaged a rejection rate of…
Integrity or Impact: What Matters in Scientific Publishing?
The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is becoming a serious problem in scholarly communication. Scientific success is often measured by the number of high-impact articles…
Trials and Tribulations Involved in Data Sharing
In presiding over the “cancer moon-shot,” Former Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden described data sharing as being essential to the advancement of biomedical research.…
Identifying Predatory Journals Using Evidence-based Characteristics
Academic researchers are under pressure to publish their research in order to advance at their educational institution, solicit funding for their research or programs, or even to…
The Importance of Scientific Transparency and Reproducibility
In scientific research, credibility is of utmost importance. Data documentation and storage, and the “rigor, transparency, and attention we invest in designing, conducting, and…
Avoiding Conflict of Interest in Peer Review
Science is practiced by those who aspire to seek the truth. Accordingly, the work of scientists is accepted by society as the standard for separating fact from fiction. For this…