The University of California Press announced the launch of a new online, open-access journal Collabra, a mega journal created along the lines of PLOS ONE. It will reportedly pair research from faculty in life and Read More
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Enclosing two or more terms within double quotation marks makes searches more specific, as discussed in an earlier article, because Google treats the matter thus enclosed as a single character string and retrieves only those Read More
Journal editors play a formative role in academic publishing. Apart from being the link between authors and peer reviewers, they form an indivisible part of the publication process from acceptance of a manuscript for peer Read More
Big data has brought an unprecedented change in the way research is conducted in every scientific discipline. Where the tools for researchers were limited to the specificity of their fields, big data is now increasingly Read More
Elsevier, the leading science journal publisher, has announced that it is preparing to launch an open-access journal this year in collaboration with the research community. The journal, which has not been named yet, will publish Read More
There is a common misconception that qualitative studies in the field of health are not as useful as empirical studies. Qualitative studies are often believed to lack scientific rigor. In fact, these studies have an Read More
Some points of style are simple and straightforward; others require some understanding of the subject matter, and genes and their products form one such case. ‘Print the scientific names of species in italics’ and ‘Print Read More
Case: The author got his paper edited by Editage and sought our help in selecting a suitable journal. We shortlisted two journals for him. The author sent out pre-submission inquiries to both the journals. One Read More
An earlier article discussed how misrepresentation of scientific research in the popular media distorts public understanding of science. Despite the problems that seem to dominate media coverage of scientific information, one question remains: Is the Read More
Publishers, governments, and learned societies the world over are faced with the intractable issue of academic corruption. While the volume of scientific publishing is increasing, the ‘publish or perish’ culture is leading some researchers to Read More