2017

The Chinese government hosts an annual science and innovation awards ceremony. This year, the ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The ceremony honors pre-eminent scientists for their research achievements. The fact…

Advancing towards its 10th decade, the APA Style is one of the hallmark features of academic writing to acknowledge the source of any information included in a scholarly article. Developed by American Psychological Association (APA) in…

Scholarly Open Access, a website known for listing "potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open access publishers" which also had a wide audience, has now been devoid of content since January 15, 2017. No particular reasons…

Traditional ways of assessing the usefulness of published work relies on citation counts and impact factors. Plum Analytics was founded to expand the way we assess research impact. It is an altmetrics provider that allows users to…

We are glad to announce that Chem-Station, the largest chemistry information portal in Japan, will now post language and grammar articles from Enago Academy (Japan). Chem-Station provides unique information related to research industry…

The onset of the “social media” revolution was recognized about 15 years ago when Friendster was created as a means by which people with similar interests could interact online. This prompted other social networking sites such as LinkedIn…

Kudos is an online platform focused on helping you make your research more accessible to the public. Kudos lets you track the impact of your efforts on how often your paper is shared, how often it is viewed on Kudos, and its Altmetric…

President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order concerning immigration and refugees. For the next 90 days, citizens of Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen will not be allowed into the USA. Refugees will not be allowed…

The titles of journal articles fall under three basic categories: Declarative – states main findings or conclusions of the article Descriptive – describes the subject of the article, but leaves out the findings/conclusion…

A new agreement between the Max Planck Digital Library and the Taylor and Francis Group is set to have a significant impact on the open access landscape. Research emanating from the Max Planck institutes can now be published in an open…