The 2018 Nobel Prize Winners
The Nobel Prize was established by Alfred Nobel (October 21, 1833–December 10, 1896) a famous scientist, inventor, and businessman in his will dated November 27, 1895. His will…
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Alarming Reproducibility Crisis Invading Social Sciences Journals
The reproducibility crisis has affected the scientific community for more than a decade now. This crisis has raised doubts about the validity of scientific studies and papers…
Workshops on Horizon 2020 by National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
With the effect of Brexit and the resulting turbulence in the research community, research funding has become a pain point for researchers globally. However, there lies a silver…
Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2018
In our previous post, we shared a brief background about the Ig Nobel Prize. This award ceremony is basically a parody to the actual Nobel Prize Awards. In fact, the tagline for…
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 2018: Celebrating Unconventional Thinking
We are all familiar with the Nobel Prize ceremony. Renowned scientists and personalities get global recognition for their groundbreaking discoveries and incredible innovations…
Peer Review Week 2018: Diversity in Peer Review
Peer review week was jointly initiated by ORCID, Sense About Science, Wiley, and ScienceOpen in the year 2015 to underscore the importance of peer review in maintaining the overall…
Plan S: Will Subscription-based Journals Get Rapidly Outdated?
The internet has revolutionized our world, and scientific publishing is no exception. To realize the dream of placing the world’s knowledge at anyone’s fingertips, the movement to…
Does Journal Growth Negatively Influence Its Impact Factor?
Have you recently published your work in a high-impact-factor journal? If yes, then congratulations! It is a huge accomplishment and also a cause for celebration.
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Bullying Researcher Loses £3.5 Million
Scientific misconduct is a constant challenge to academic research progress. Not only plagiarism, false research claims and allegations of bullying have also crept in academia.…
Harvard Cancer Biologist Faces Retraction for the Third Time
Scientific misconduct, upon its discovery, has ripple effects throughout the academic world. Retractions still have the power to negatively impact your career. Over the years,…
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to Replicate Only 18 Studies Now
In order to be able to translate basic biomedical research into clinical research, it needs to be robust and reproducible. This has major implications in the pharmaceutical…
FDA Approves the First Marijuana-Based Drug
The rate of discoveries in medical research has accelerated in light of increasing technological advances. Discoveries in drug research have notably promoted human health and life…