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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
Retractions are central to academic publishing, but they have been too journal-centric and stereotyped. Therefore, researchers hesitate to disclose even honest errors in…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 25, 2016
As an author, you might be relieved once your paper receives a conditional acceptance. But what if the journal rejects the paper later, not because the revisions are not…
- Kakoli Majumder
- May 24, 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
This post provides essential information for those planning to submit a research paper to the journal Applied Ergonomics.
- Yateendra Joshi
- May 20, 2016
On May 13, the U.S. government announced the launch of a National Microbiome Initiative to study and map the microorganisms that live in the atmosphere, in or on the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 18, 2016
Lacey E. Earle is Vice President of Business Development for Cabell’s International and leads corporate relations and business partnerships. She is well-versed in the…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- May 17, 2016
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) announced that it has delisted about 3,300 titles in order to ensure that questionable and inactive publishers do not find…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 11, 2016