On 4 August, the US federal agency National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would lift the funding moratorium that it had imposed on HIH-funded researchers, prohibiting them from creating chimeras. Chimera-based studies involve adding Read More
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Did your busy schedule keep you from following the hottest topics of discussion in the scholarly circles? Worry not! Our team of editors has been on top of the goings-on in academia and has curated Read More
The pace of scientific progress is quickening with researchers publishing important discoveries every day. However, the science community has been highlighting the fact that modern science is afflicted with several problems that threaten to ruin Read More
The European Research Council (ERC), which awards some of the most sought-after grants for basic research, has announced that it will begin monitoring the outcomes of the research projects that it has commissioned. “We push Read More
Case: An author published her paper in a journal. Soon after, she received an email from the journal editor stating that the author had not declared a potential conflict of interest. According to the editor, Read More
[This post was created for the Wolters-Kluwer author newsletter Author Resource Review and has been reproduced with permission.] Editorial Manager® (EM) is the manuscript submission system of choice for the majority of Wolters Read More
The peer review system, which lies at the heart of academic publishing, is considered the most trustworthy method to assess the quality of research before it gets published. However, the excessive dependence on the peer Read More
The Netherlands’ largest research funding agency, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), has announced the launch of a €3 million grants programme devoted to replication studies. According to researchers, this is the world’s first Read More
Aims and scope Angewandte Chemie publishes papers related to all branches of chemistry and related disciplines. The international edition is in English and the national edition is in German. Publisher Wiley-VCH (for the Gesellschaft Deutscher Read More
Irreproducibility has rapidly gained the reputation of being one of the most persistent and concerning problems of science in recent times. Nature published a report of a survey it conducted to gain an insight into Read More