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How Rare is Scientific Misconduct?

Assessing how rare scientific misconduct might be within the broader scientific research community would be virtually impossible. A scientific misconduct cannot be identified until it has been discovered. There are several cases of…
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Can the METRICS Center Save Science?

METRICS: A Little Backdrop In 2005, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal published a paper by Greek researcher Dr. John Ioannidis entitled “Why most published research findings are false.” The paper went on to become the…
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Organic Change in Academic Research

Consistency is the Mantra! The Scientific Method is built upon the assumption that no matter how far outside the box an observation may seem, the assessment can always be validated by the subsequent testing and refinement of hypotheses.…
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What are Digital Humanities?

It's Complicated: Defining Digital Humanities Arriving at an authoritative definition of Digital Humanities (DH) is particularly difficult when those directly involved in the field have yet to arrive at a consensus of what it means. Some…
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Does Research Need a Chief Science Advisor?

Europe’s First CSA At the beginning of 2012, Professor Anne Glover, a Scottish molecular biologist at the University of Aberdeen and former Chief Science Advisor (CSA) for Scotland, was appointed as the first ever CSA to the European…
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The Dangers of Research Patents

What’s the Purpose of A Patent? A patent is a legal title granting any person who “invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof,” the right to…
. 3 mins read
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Open Access: Does Less Equal More?

Bringing Research to the Masses As it reaches its fifteenth birthday, it may still be too early to speak of the "history" of Open Access (OA). Yet, enough time has passed since the day Public Library of Science (PLOS) was launched in 2000.…
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Should Peer Review Be Transparent?

The anonymity of the peer review process has always been regarded as a key tenet of the quality and integrity of academic publishing. The freedom to comment openly and without fear of retribution, it is argued, frees reviewers from the…
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