The third annual John Maddox Prize was jointly awarded to freelance journalist Dr. Emily Willingham and early career scientist Dr. David Robert Grimes in recognition of their contribution to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 3, 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 additional experiments be…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 31, 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to the French economist Jean Tirole in recognition of his analysis of market power and regulation. Tirole is chairs the board of the Jean-Jacques
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 14, 2014
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 9, 2014
The Nobel Prize, established by the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, is coveted and acknowledged by scientists worldwide as the individuals upon whom this award is bestowed “shall have conferred the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 8, 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 citations, long after they are…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 1, 2014
Plagiarism is often one of the commonly cited reasons behind retraction of scientific papers. However, should plagiarism in any form necessarily result in journal retraction? Instead of retracting…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 12, 2014
Retraction is one of the most widely discussed topics in the publication industry, and authors should be aware of its implications.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 28, 2014
The Fields Medal, which is officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is an esteemed award that is often described as the “mathematician’s Nobel Prize.”
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 13, 2014
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a website that lists open access journals, has announced that all the journals listed in their directory will need to reapply to ensure that meet the
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 11, 2014