A re-review of peer review: Leading journal looks to end the 'review nightmare'
Every scientific researcher has asked themselves the question at some stage in their professional career: Why has the paper I submitted to be peer reviewed disappeared into the ether?
View ArticleAuthors, journal editors respond to possible cases of plagiarism identified...
By bringing cases of potential plagiarism out into the open, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on the peer-review process and scientific publication.
View ArticlePeer Review Survey 2009: Preliminary findings
Should peer review detect fraud and misconduct? What does it do for science and what does the scientific community want it to do? Will it illuminate good ideas or shut them down? Should reviewers...
View ArticleScience fraud: Journal urges China to show 'integrity'
Leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday urged China to tighten measures against scientific fraud after dozens of papers written by two teams of Chinese chemists were found to be faked.
View ArticleTo publish or not to publish? That is the question
For more than 50 years medical research has been vetted through the peer-review process overseen by medical journal editors who assign reviewers to determine whether work merits publication. A study...
View ArticleFederal peer review may be overstretched and error prone
The federal peer review system, by which research proposals are judged worthy for funding, may be "over stretched" and "susceptible to error," said Elmer Yglesias, a researcher at the Science and...
View ArticleRevealed: 48-hour 'scramble' to discredit MMR concerns
A series of denials and a failure to formally investigate allegations of misconduct in Andrew Wakefield's MMR research meant the public was misled about the credibility of the paper for six years.
View ArticleAmerican Physical Society announces Physical Review X
APS announces Physical Review X (PRX), an online, open access, primary research journal for authors in all fields of physics.
View ArticleStrong scientific peer review leads to better science and policy formation
The current Special Issue of Technology & Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors is focused on the history, process and practice of scientific peer review, with several...
View ArticleSpanish scientific journals must raise professional standards in order to...
A study by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) shows a lack of standardisation in the peer review systems whereby independent experts assess the content of scientific publications...
View ArticleClimate study gets pulled over plagiarism
Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming.
View ArticleNew study identifies gaps in NIH funding success rates for black researchers
Black scientists were significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to an analysis of data from 2000 to 2006.
View ArticleOnline game aims to improve scientific peer review accuracy
Peer review of scientific research is an essential component of research publication, the awarding of grants, and academic promotion. Reviewers are often anonymous. However, a new study by researchers...
View ArticleLibel case against the scientific journal Nature begins
(PhysOrg.com) -- The British science journal Nature, which publishes both purely academic papers and editorial pieces, is being sued in a British court by a former editor of the theoretical physics...
View ArticleAcademic social network Mendeley generates 100 million API calls a month
(Phys.org)—Publishing scientific papers is big business, so is connecting the dots between papers that are published and offering reports to those looking for reliable information about them. To fill...
View ArticlePLOS ONE paper on cassava gene enhancement retracted
(Phys.org)—PLOS ONE, an open access peer review journal (launched in 2006) has issued a retraction regarding a paper it published recently touting the benefits of genetically enhanced cassava, saying...
View ArticleDoes science need 'open evaluation' in addition to 'open access?'
In an editorial accompanying an ebook titled "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review," Nikolaus Kriegeskorte argues that scientists, not...
View ArticleFostering critical thinking via assessment
Critical thinking skills have been identified as learning outcomes expected of students. Teaching towards developing thinking skills is quite recent, attempts are observed to find ways to infuse...
View ArticleLet me introduce myself: Leafcutter bee Megachile chomskyi from Texas
The genus Megachile is a cosmopolitan group of solitary bees, often called leafcutter bees. This is one of the largest genera of bees, with well over 1,500 species in over 50 subgenera. A new species,...
View ArticleDecision making in scientific peer review unravelled with mathematical modelling
Professor Mikko Alava and undergraduate Tuomo Hartonen of Aalto University Department of Applied Physics have modelled the work processes and human decision making in scientific peer review with the...
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