Barely two weeks into office, U.S. President Donald Trump has passed an executive order suspending the issuance of visas to citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen) for 90 Read More
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Happy New Year! We hope that the first month of 2017 has been exciting and productive for you. A lot has been happening in the academic world – from Donald Trump’s immigration ban creating anxiety among Read More
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology has made available the results of the first five studies it attempted to replicate, and their report has taken the world of biology by storm. The findings published in eLife Read More
Scholarly Open Access, a popular blog that listed questionable journals and publishers, has recently been taken down. The blog was maintained since 2008 by Jeffrey Beall who is an academic librarian at the University of Colorado Read More
[This post was created for the Wolters-Kluwer author newsletter Author Resource Review and has been reproduced with permission. This post is authored by Julie Rempfer, an Associate Publisher at Wolters Kluwer. She serves Read More
In my 30 years of working in the field of analytical chemistry, I have reviewed many manuscripts for a variety of journals. Most of the manuscripts contained little or no analytical method validation, which means they Read More
As a graduate student, I was quite fortunate to attend several conferences. Initially, their purpose was limited to attending talks, grabbing free food, and catching up with long-distance friends. Occasionally, someone would mention the dreaded Read More
In the previous segment, we discussed how as a researcher you can’t just stop at writing a research paper. In order to be successful you also need to promote it to increase impact Read More
The world of academia is competitive, and you need to make sure that you make the most of your potential as well as research output. Gone are the days when you could publish a paper Read More
If I were to ask you to name one problem in academic publishing that threatens the integrity of science, what would your answer be? Many of you might say fraud, plagiarism, or unethical publishing practices. Read More