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The Shaw Prize is a highly esteemed international award that recognizes the achievements of scholars in the fields of astronomy, life sciences and medicine, and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
Irreproducibility of published results is considered a modern-day crisis that science is facing. However, the lack of a commonly agreed definition of reproducibility and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
A report released by Sense of Science on 2 June has revealed that the UK government has no account of the research it has funded to develop policies and has delayed the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
Sustainability science is becoming increasingly collaborative and global, a recent report found, but researchers say cooperation between scientists from the North and…
- SciDev.Net
- June 2, 2016
Europe’s Competitiveness Council has declared that all online research papers supported by public and public-private funding will be made freely accessible by the year…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 31, 2016
What was the academic publishing industry talking about in May 2016? We bring you a quick overview of some of the hot topics of discussion: data sharing, retractions,…
- Editage Insights
- May 31, 2016
Traditionally the province of rogue individuals, academic misconduct has entered a new era in which third parties are exploiting submission loopholes to manipulate the…
- Duncan MacRae
- May 31, 2016
Santa Cruz Biotechnology, a large biotech company and a major antibody provider, has been fined $3.5-million by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for violating…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 26, 2016
The Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources (CRPR) has received industry support and is one step closer to its mission to help preserve the integrity of the…
- Editage Insights
- May 24, 2016
This study tries to understand what kind of reviewer comments authors, particularly non-native English speaking authors from China, perceive as negative; how they react…
- Kakoli Majumder
- May 23, 2016