QS World University Rankings for 2018 Released
The eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject has been released recently. Conducted annually by a British company named Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), it is one of…
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National Science Foundation Decides to Close China, Japan, & Belgium Offices
More bad news awaits the scientific community as the year rolls in. The US-based National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will close its overseas offices in Beijing,…
China Begins Excelling in Research: An Interview with Mingfang Lu
Research in China has seen an exponential growth in the recent years. So much so that China is now the world's largest producer of scientific articles. There are a number of…
Senior Researchers Unwilling to Collaborate With Juniors?
At present, the field of scientific research is fast-paced and highly evolving. For a scientist, keeping up with scientific advancements is as important and exciting, as driving…
Publisher Refrains from Charging Extra for Archived Papers
The business of academic publishing is controversially inaccessible to its target audience; the academic community. Specifically, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have been on the…
U.S. and South Korea Contributing Massively to Novel Biomedical Publications
Research in South Korea is progressing fast. South Korea now ranks only second to the United States in terms of novel biomedical research publications, as demonstrated by a new…
Is Your Industry-Funded Research Reproducible? Experts Offer Insights
Industry leaders frequently tie up with the academic community to conduct research. The partnership between the academe and industry sponsors seems like a perfect match: industry…
PubMed Commons to be Discontinued by NIH
Researchers will no longer be able to comment on articles published on PubMed. The feature of PubMed Commons is about to be discontinued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).…
Japan Boosts Research Funding to Keep Pace With China & South Korea
After nearly a decade of stagnating funding for scientific research, Japan’s government has committed to a sharp increase in financial support for the sector in 2018. The…
Korean Research Fraud: Kids Listed as Manuscript Co-Authors
Fraudulent research has taken a turn for the worse, this time in South Korea. At least 82 academic papers published by South Korean researchers have been identified as fraudulent.…
U.S. Court Orders Journal Publisher to Identify Peer Reviewers
Peer review is widely recognized essential to ensure the quality of research that is published in academic journals. There are different ways to conduct peer review. Among these,…
Trump Administration Wiping Out Scientific Advisory Boards?
The current American political climate is proving difficult for the people there. One of many significant issues is the effect of Trump's rule on science. Scientific funding and…