Macmillan Science and Education, the London-based publisher of Nature and Scientific American, will merge with one of the world’s largest science publishers, Berlin-based Springer Science+Business…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 16, 2015
The lack of recognition of peer reviewing as an important scholarly endeavor has led a group of more than 40 Australian journal editors to submit an open letter entitled Journal Reviewing and Editing…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 14, 2015
What does the term "big data" mean? Why is it being considered as an additional paradigm to science? In the recent years, the availability of large volumes of data has changed the nature of science…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 14, 2015
Academic research has become an increasingly competitive field, and a wide range of aspects such as funding structures, publishing prototypes, career prospects, and research management systems impact…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 6, 2015
Stem-cell biologist Dr. Haruko Obokata who claimed to have discovered a simple and inexpensive way of producing stem cells, the STAP (Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency) method, resigned…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 24, 2014
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 about a significant issue:…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 19, 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 experts in the field. However,…
- 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 address the flaws in the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 19, 2014
The Breakthrough Prize, the largest award in sciences, honored 14 pioneering scientists in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics with $3 million each. The 2015…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 14, 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 launched Publons platform aims to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 5, 2014