Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2015 and has been refreshed. In November 1895, Alfred Nobel made his famous will, according to which most of his estate, worth 31 million Swedish Kronor (SEK) at the Read More
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Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economical Sciences. American economist Richard Thaler won the prize “for his contributions to behavioural economics.” University of Chicago’s Thaler Read More
In a previous article, I have explained how as an author, you can identify coercive citation requests from editors and how to distinguish such requests from legitimate ones. In this post, I will explain what Read More
Discussions about scientific misconduct are no longer just a closely held, whispered communication between scientists. Over the past decade, commentary about the integrity of the scientific endeavor has been expressed in popular newspapers, blogs and Read More
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of Read More
Yesterday, British author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. While making the announcement for this Prize, the Nobel Committee said that Ishiguro “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss Read More
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced yesterday on October 4, 2017. The Prize was jointly awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in Read More
On October 4, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.” The three researchers who will share the prize Read More
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced yesterday on October 3, 2017. One half of the 2017 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded to Rainer Weiss and the other half was shared jointly by Barry C. Barish and Kip Read More
The detection of the universe’s gravitational waves was a groundbreaking discovery in the field of physics. In recognition of this, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics “for decisive Read More