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Scientists and science advocates from all over the world met on April 22 to support research and evidence-based policymaking. For many of them, the March for Science—which was timed to coincide with Earth Day—was their first demonstration…

Have you experienced writing a manuscript that seems to go on and on, is exceedingly verbose, and repeats ideas and words throughout the document? Have you been asked to reduce the word count in academic manuscripts and wondered what to do…

It is widely accepted that receiving funding from an organization may come with pressure to publish results that are favorable to the funder. Marion Nestle found that 156 of 168 industry-funded research articles reported results that were…

Israel and South Korea have been very close since 2012 in terms of the percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) invested in Research and Development (R&D). In 2015, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)…

A research proposal is essentially a plan for work in order to test a hypothesis or set of hypotheses in order to answer a research question. One of the most important things to bear in mind when drafting a proposal is the fact that authors…

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 journal and affects more than 500 authors, largely Chinese…

A problem of reproducibility has begun to emerge among researchers around the world. As scientists study increasingly complex systems with multiple variables, there will certainly be variation in observed effects. But more importantly, when…

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 imposed by journals, it is highly unlikely that a…

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 about 76 percent. Elsevier, one of the largest publishers in…

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 a researcher has co-authored, and this can even affect…