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How authors, reviewers, and editors perceive peer review: An overview of the Taylor & Francis report
Peer review is considered by most scholars to be a reliable method of evaluating research qualitatively. But what are the perspectives of authors, peer reivewers, and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 14, 2015
The richest award in science, the Breakthrough Prize, was presented on October 8 to researchers belonging to the fields of physics, life sciences, and mathematics. This…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 14, 2015
Professor Linqi Zhang - Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Comprehensive Aids Research Center at Tsinghua University, China - is very passionate about HIV…
- Editage Insights
- November 10, 2015
The controversial Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured funding from the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, for the next three years that…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 9, 2015
As the focus of research is shifting to resolving challenges such as climate change, food and water crisis, research is transcending the boundaries of disciplines. But…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 4, 2015
As a preventive measure against plagiarism and instances of fake peer reviews, DNA and Cell Biology will impose a 3-year ban on any author who submits plagiarized…
- Kakoli Majumder
- November 2, 2015
Richard Poynder is an independent journalist/blogger with a particular interest in open access and its perception and application across different sections of academia…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- October 27, 2015
Academic freedom has become a hot topic of discussion among Russian scientists as a recent amendment in law by the Russian government states that research manuscripts…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 26, 2015
The scientific community is steadily moving toward open science. Even publishers are joining this “open” trend. China, being the country with the second largest research…
- Sheng Fen-Ku
- October 23, 2015
Richard Poynder is an independent journalist/blogger with a particular interest in open access and its perception and application across different sections of academia…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- October 23, 2015