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The pressure to publish has led some authors to exploit the peer review system and indulge in peer review rigging. These scandals have prompted discussions among experts…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 19, 2014
Can the high host specificity of phages be used to our advantage, in order to establish a preventive and therapeutic method for some chronic diseases?
- Xuejun Sun
- December 3, 2014
Post-publication peer review is considered by some experts as one of ways of preserving scientific integrity since published research is open to the scrutiny of all…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 29, 2014
Although China is among the world leaders in scientific output, the Chinese research system has been struggling to resolve many basic problems in research management. To…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 19, 2014
While peer review is considered as an integral part of validating the soundness of science, peer reviewing has remained a largely unacknowledged task. The recently…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 5, 2014
It takes several months to years for a researcher to publish a paper. A commonly cited reason for delayed publication is that the peer reviewers often recommend that…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 31, 2014
In the ever-expanding academic literature pool, health-related academic journal publications authored by nurses are very rare. In this post, Jolene Menezes, Editor of…
- Jolene Menezes
- October 22, 2014
The stereotypical view of a nurse is a person who tends the sick, injured, or infirm. However, I have realized that there is much more to the role of gastroenterology…
- Jolene Menezes
- October 11, 2014
Retraction is a way of alerting the research community of a paper’s questionable credibility. However, retracted papers continue to have an ‘afterlife’, in the form of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 1, 2014
Over the years in Brazil, open access has emerged as a favorable solution to help increase the visibility of Brazilian researchers in the global research arena, and the…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- September 12, 2014