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Biomedical research is often based on observational studies, so it is important that all observations are carried out carefully and reported in an appropriate way to ensure that they are reliable and useful. In 2004, an international group…

Deciding where to publish your research is already tough enough. Even worse, some journals out there simply seek to make money off researchers by offering to publish their manuscripts with minimal scrutiny. These predatory journals often…

Scientific research is sometimes built upon previous findings. When drafting your manuscript, a citation maker can assist you in generating references and citations based on a preferred style guide. Different online citation generators…

ScienceFair is a new program built on the idea that access to the scholarly literature should be independent of the influence of large publishers. In some cases, the platforms that researchers use to access and read scientific literature…

Your manuscript has been accepted, so what happens next? Generally, this is a three-step process: manuscript submission, peer review, and post-acceptance preparation. After a manuscript is submitted to a target journal, it undergoes peer…

Clarivate Analytics has recently announced a partnership with Impactstory. Under the agreement, Clarivate Analytics will help fund Impactstory’s oaDOI service. This should make it easier for researchers to find open access content. The…

To do research you need money and irrespective of the amount needed or the subject area, funding opportunities must be considered. Finding the right research funding for your project is in itself a lot of work. Recently, Mendeley, the…

A recently concluded investigation by the Review Board set up by the Executive Board of the Leibniz Association has found Prof. Dr. Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of research misconduct. Prof. Rudolph is the Director of the Leibniz Institute…

Randomized clinical trials are widely accepted as the gold standard approach to test new line of drugs, therapies, or treatments. They reduce bias by randomly allocating patients to either a treatment or a control group. In this scenario,…

The process of research seems simple from the outside: read, experiment, publish, and repeat. Yet, paywalls formed by national or cultural groups is a barrier to scholarly communication. Scholarly Commons and its working group, the…