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Authorship in Research
This piece aims to raise awareness about paper mills, tracing its origins and modus operandi, and bringing to light the red flags researchers should be wary of.
- Sunaina Singh
- May 21, 2024
To mark the occasion of World Health Day, we speak with patient expert Clarinda Cerejo to understand how medical researchers can involve patients in the research and…
- Mriganka Awati
- April 4, 2024
Are you an author or contributor? Is this a question that often occurs to you? This article explains CRediT, short for Contributor Roles Taxonomy, to help you with…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 18, 2023
This article highlights the dangers that paper mills pose and how well-meaning researchers can avoid their pitfalls.
- David Burbridge
- May 30, 2023
ChatGPT, an AI chatbot released by tech company OpenAI is making immense foray in academia. The authorship of research papers and preprints are being credited to the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 30, 2023
In this post, our senior editor has answered some of the most pressing questions about ChatGPT.
- Marisha Fonseca
- January 25, 2023
Twenty-seven years ago, German researchers discovered the fossil of a 120-million-year-old dinosaur in northern Brazil. In December 2020, a group of scientists confirmed…
- Malvika Gaur
- April 29, 2022
There seem to be some unlikely similarities between celebrated chefs and successful researchers. But is there a recipe for success? Now there is. Take a look at this…
- Elizabeth George
- June 14, 2021
The refrain of “peer review is broken” or “science is broken” is reaching a crescendo. Researchers often ask, “If papers with flaws pass peer review, why am I struggling…
- Sunaina Singh
- September 22, 2020
English is not the first language for most of the world’s researchers, who are vying to get their work published in top peer-reviewed journals. In fact, even native…
- Elizabeth George
- September 22, 2020