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No one likes to receive a bad review on a submitted paper, since this may prevent publication. However, there are times when a good review can be even worse, ultimately causing a…

Every scientist dreams of writing a groundbreaking research paper. Perhaps the discovery of a new form of carbon, high-temperature superconductors, or room temperature fusion. Top…

The world of peer review and scientific publishing is just not ready for major changes, according to Dr. Randy Schekman, a Nobel laureate, and there are serious concerns about the…

An academic paper published and shared online will be corrected or retracted much more often than a research paper that is only shared privately. Data was gathered by Dr. Paul…

Academic publishing in the United States is being compromised by a publishing waiver that authors are required to sign when writing for scholarly journals such as Scientific…

Recently in the scientific world, the Royal Society of London—one of the most influential international fellowships of scientists—announced that they have launched a new open…

After the unprecedented success of the Human Genome Project, many similar "megaprojects" that were previously dismissed as beyond our current research capabilities have been…

Although I like to think that fraud in academic publications is rare, there have been a number of cases where researchers have had to withdraw supposedly groundbreaking research…

The realization of human births through In Vitro (within glass) Fertilization (IVF), commonly referred to as “test-tube babies,” represented a giant advance in the treatment of…

It is the thinnest material ever created, yet its wondrous properties will have a tremendous impact on our lives in the future! This miracle material is graphene, which is nothing…

Carbon is the basis for all organic molecules, and therefore life itself. The synthesis of complex organic molecules can be a challenging task since carbon atoms prefer not to…