Since its inception, the objective of science has been human progress through knowledge sharing. However, the scientific community is divided about the data sharing trend.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 26, 2014
Peer review is perceived as one of the mainstays of scientific publishing. Papers that undergo the peer review process are held in high esteem since the quality of research is scrutinized
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 26, 2014
The impact factor is one of the most discussed topics in the publishing and scientific community. Thomson Reuters assigns most journals a yearly impact factor (IF), which is the mean
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 8, 2014
Ghost authorship has been one of the persistent problems in medical writing, which this article discusses in detail.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 2, 2013
At this time of the year, most academicians await the announcement of the Noble Prize winners. This prestigious award is presented to worthy candidates in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 24, 2013
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what the academic world thinks of open access (OA) publishing and related topics, such as peer review, licensing, re-use, and metrics? Read on the results of a…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 21, 2013
One of the most basic and important aspects of a research paper is the title. Writing the a research paper title may seem a simple task, but it requires some serious thought.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
Traditional metrics for measuring scholarly impact, such as the impact factor of the journal, h-index, etc., are familiar to all researchers. But although still very popular, citation-based…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
Research papers go through a long and thorough process of peer review so that the published papers are free of errors and mistakes. Despite this, sometimes some errors may remain
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013
The Nature Publishing Group released The Nature Publishing Index 2012, China, in May, 2013. This index is based on papers published in the prestigious Nature group of journals. From this report, it…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 17, 2013