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Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj are independent science journalists and founders of the unique project “The Life of Science,” a platform that features interviews with and blog posts by women…

For an academic, the significance of both reading and writing literature reviews cannot be overstated. Writing effective literature reviews needs precision, clarity, and critical thinking. It not…

In this article, we provide an overview of the possibilities and concerns of using AI in peer review and how best AI can come together with human expertise. 

Literature search, in general, is quite a time- and effort-intensive task. It is therefore quite likely that researchers and clinicians involved in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary projects…

Japan's investment in R&D is high. Despite this, Japanese research output is diminishing. Why is this happening? A hierarchical educational system, and lack…

The truth is that love it or hate it, peer reviews play an integral part of the scholarly publishing process and research authors must learn to live with it. But in the…

Effective networking is an essential skill for a researcher, especially in times like these where almost everything is virtual. Here are the top 10 tips to make networking easy for researchers,…

Some people don’t like reviewing. I don't understand this, because I happen to love it! And after 15 years of reviewing, I have learned that there are a few things which…

"Science is global; so is WAME." President of the World Association of Medical Editors, Dr. Lorraine Ferris, discusses the important role world-renowned WAME plays to raise medical editing standards…

Hijacked journals have come back into focus recently, and they can cause more damage than predatory journals to the scholarly record. Learn what they are and how to identify them.