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One aspect of academic publication that is rarely given any attention, especially in the case of new and early career researchers, is the retraction process. Published articles are retracted on a regular basis and for a wide range of…

The Scientific Method Modern science is built on a foundation of the assumed purity of the scientific method. The approach has remained unchanged—identify and define a problem, gather relevant data, develop a tentative hypothesis,…

On 23rd June this year, the UK voted in a historic referendum to leave the EU, throwing the country and the rest of Europe into a crisis. For researchers in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty surrounding what the future looks like…

Behavior that would be considered scientific misconduct could occur at all points in a research protocol. You could encounter different types of scientific research misconduct at different stages, right from the origination of different…

Too many scientific reputations have been damaged by charges of unethical behavior. Although we all think of ourselves as applying the highest standards of ethics, avoiding ethical issues is not as easy as you might think. Here are some of…

Whether concerning physics or psychology, academic writing has the reputation of being dense and impenetrable. Rumor has it that only six people in the world understood Einstein’s first paper on relativity, and the term “psychobabble”…

Academic writing conveys clear and accurate information, and to this end, places a high premium on well-constructed, carefully thought-out content. Alas! Many a time, these hallowed features lead academic sentences to becoming lengthy and…

The term Open Access encompasses a variety of research contributions intended for dissemination to the research community. These can be broadly classified into two types: (1) Open Access journals (2) Open Access repositories or…

The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society. Access Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the reader. Thus price barriers are substantially lowered or…

Misconduct: A Question of Intent If we consider the top three categories of scientific misconduct to be, in ascending order, the use of someone else’s work without citation (plagiarism), the manipulation of research data to achieve a…