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Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiome and science integrity consultant and founder of the Microbiome Digest blog. Dr. Bik’s pro bono efforts to help identify instances of…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- August 8, 2019
Academics, especially early career researchers and PhD-holders, are now finding a new way to offer their services as freelancers or consultants to industries that…
- Ramya Sriram
- August 5, 2019
Epigenetic regulation—modification of gene expression from the “outside”—is an important part of the overall genetic processes within a cell. A group of scientists from…
- Impact Science
- August 1, 2019
A new research integrity committee will monitor misconduct investigations conducted by UK universities. The committee will work under United Kingdom Research and…
- Fatima Qureshi
- August 1, 2019
Understand what China's Belt and Road Initiative is and how science is an important aspect of the plans.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 31, 2019
A Russian website offering authorship in accepted research papers for a price is being probed for malpractice. Read on to know the reaction of the industry to this…
- Irfan Syed
- July 28, 2019
Springer Nature and ResearchGate have rolled out the second phase of their open access pilot. Four times more Springer Nature articles will be uploaded on authors’…
- Fatima Qureshi
- July 25, 2019
University of California recently lost access to the latest articles in Elsevier journals. Researchers affiliated with the university have been asked to rely on…
- Fatima Qureshi
- July 18, 2019
In a new study, Professor Hideo Noda of the School of Management at the Tokyo University of Science examined data from 34 OECD countries and appraised the effects of…
- Impact Science
- July 17, 2019
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is the first European university, and the second university worldwide, to adopt a research code to counter 'ethics dumping.'
- Irfan Syed
- July 15, 2019