Is Pirate Black Open Access Disrupting Green & Gold Open Access?
Efforts to create open scholarly communications are an ongoing process within academic publishing, amid conflicting views on open access models. In this context, publications…
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Research Fraud: How Journals Should Address It
Journals and academic institutions have significant roles to play in cases where academic fraud and research misconduct are suspected. When journals suspect academic misconduct…
Research Ethics & Misconduct: What Researchers Need to Know
Ethics are the moral principles that a person must follow, irrespective of the place or time. Behaving ethically involves doing the right thing at the right time. Research ethics…
Researcher’s Guide to Patents
With the ongoing CRISPR patent battle, there is no better time to refresh some important information on patenting inventions. Legally, technology transfer is defined as formal…
What Is Ghost, Guest, and Gift Authorship in Research?
Authorship defines the role of a creator, whose intention is to circulate original ideas and intellectual works. In scholarly publishing, in particular, the role of the author…
How Should Researchers Deal with Article Retractions?
Primary research findings are typically published in academic journals as articles. However, even after passing peer-review, retractions in academic journals can follow, even many…
Why are Negative Results Crucial in Science?
Similar to any other discipline, scientific success is rejoiced while failure is shoved to the background and rarely admitted. Journals report success in academic research as…
Are Pay-to-Publish Policies Making Chinese Scientists Rich?
In China, institutions pay authors to publish their work in top journals. We recently wrote a piece about this practice. Many Chinese scholars get cash bonuses to publish…
Can Reproducibility in Chemical Research be Fixed?
Reproducibility is the gold standard in science. In science, papers must describe methods that others can use to get or reproduce the same results. Reproducibility is crucial in…
What Can Be Done to Fix the Replication Crisis in Science?
Part of the scientific process involves the reproducibility of experiments. When scientists prepare the materials and methods section of their manuscripts, they should draft it in…
Animal Studies: Important Ethical Considerations You Need to Know
Animal research has been conducted for a very long time. One of the key arguments for animal testing is the fact that we can generate data that will be useful for treating disease…
Solving the Reproducibility Crisis in Scientific Research
A search for truth drives scientific research. One of the tests for research findings is that it must be reproducible research. If you are the only person who can observe a result…
