This month, we’d like to draw your attention to posts that explore larger level issues in research communication. The underlying theme, we realized, in most of these posts, was the problems plaguing science particularly Read More
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Recently, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a major change in their policy that will have repercussions across the biomedical research community. Moving away from the traditional model, NIH will introduce a Read More
Getting grants is vital for researchers to carry out their research. However, winning these grants is not an easy task. Several aspects determine whether a researcher is awarded a grant, such as the research topic, Read More
[This post was created for the Wolters-Kluwer author newsletter Author Resource Review and has been reproduced with permission. This post has been authored by Alison McGonagle-O’Connell. Alison has nearly 15 years’ experience in Read More
The month of April was perhaps the most exciting time for academics around the world as several hundred researchers and supporters of science participated in the March for Science. While this movement dominated the news Read More
In one of the biggest cases of mass retraction yet, Springer announced the retraction of 107 papers published in Tumor Biology, an open access cancer journal. Editor-in-chief Torgny Stigbrand stated that, “After a thorough investigation we Read More
Scientists have been long accused of remaining confined to an ivory tower with little or no connect to the non-scientific community. But this will change on Earth Day, that is, April 22, when scientists, science advocates, Read More
[This post has been reproduced with permission from Tim van der Zee. It was originally published on his blog.] Don’t take my word for it, but being a scientist is about being a skeptic. Read More
This month, the hottest topic of discussion in both academic and non-academic circles was of course U.S. President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal. If you too were too absorbed in reading up about Read More
On February 23, Axios Review, the independent peer review service, announced on Twitter that the company plans to shut down and will stop accepting further requests for peer review from March 1. Tim Vines, founder and Managing Read More