Conflict of Interest

You can also listen to this article as an audio recording. “Do you have a conflict of interest?” is a question most researchers are used to answering. In science, all good…

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…

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…

In Western science culture, it is often expected that research will be done out of a desire to advance knowledge. It is not the norm for scientists to be given financial rewards…

Science is practiced by those who aspire to seek the truth. Accordingly, the work of scientists is accepted by society as the standard for separating fact from fiction. For this…

Even the most carefully constructed research studies can fall apart once the data has been collected. A flawless literature review can identify a perfectly valid research question…

Although “follow the money” describes most conflicts of interest, some conflicts have nothing to do with money. Suppose you are a researcher who publishes papers regularly. And…

An Academic Community When we speak of the worlds of academic research and academic publishing, we often refer to the academic community as a collaborative group of professionals…

The scientific method involves testing of a hypothesis by an experiment. If the experiment shows a result that supports the hypothesis, this is considered as positive result,…