What Is the Real Cost of Scientific Publishing?
After spending years researching, scientific researchers publish their findings to share them with the larger scientific community. It is standard procedure that peer-reviewed…
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What Is the Future of Scholarly Monographs in the Digital World?
In a publication society that is rapidly changing its formats and principles, the academic world is beginning to falter in that most information is becoming available through other…
Hacked Peer Review Process: A Reiteration of the Elsevier Hack
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…
Is Overpromoting Research by Journals like Nature, Cell, and Science Damaging Science?
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…
Why Is the Scientific Publishing Industry Not Ready for Major Changes?
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…
A Research Paper Available Online Has Greater Chance of Being Corrected
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 Waiver Raises Concerns
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…
World’s First Scientific Publisher Launches New Open Access Journal
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…
What Is the BRAIN Initiative?
After the unprecedented success of the Human Genome Project, many similar "megaprojects" that were previously dismissed as beyond our current research capabilities have been…
Graduate Student Fraud: The Bengü Sezen Case
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…
Test-Tube Babies: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2010
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…
Graphene: Thin is In! (Nobel Prize in Physics 2010)
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…