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For many frustrated researchers, the academic publishing industry continues to move at a glacial pace. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been in use for over four decades, using methodology that…

A History of Huge Contributions to Science If you think back to many of the scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century, a lot of them came from corporate research centers: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) developed the…

Defining research as "independent" is not as simple as it might first appear. Which criteria are you considering for independence? Freedom of Influence – you have the money and resources to conduct independent research without any…

Capital Compensation When writers are looking to emphasize a word, but they’re not sure if they should bold it, underline it, italicize it, or upper case it, the go-to action seems to be to capitalize its first letter. Unfortunately, the…

The Action Research Process Action research (AR) assumes that the solution to an identified problem can be achieved in multiple cycles of a distinct process. Rather than following the objectivity of the pure scientific method, Action…

An Uncertain Future! Science majors who persisted through to doctoral research are finding that their prospects upon graduation aren’t any better than their peers who studied for business and humanities degrees. In their endless pursuit of…

An Academic Community When we speak of the worlds of academic research and academic publishing, we often refer to the academic community as a collaborative group of professionals committed to discovering more about the world in which we…

Bangkok, Thailand: Enago recently conducted its latest author workshop in Thailand to introduce local researchers to publication of articles in international peer-reviewed journals. The workshop was conducted at Siriraj Hospital in…

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing: “Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of…

What is the Belmont Report? In July 1974, the National Research Act was signed into law, creating the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The creation of the Commission was…