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The Physiological Society has released a report following a series of high profile roundtable sessions with senior politicians and academics. The report makes recommendations to the Government on the...
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After months of speculation and rumor, NASA has finally released its long-awaited research paper on the controversial EM Drive propulsion system. The paper was recently published in the American...
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Social media has erased many of the boundaries between leaders and the people they represent, between experts and the lay public, between scientists and nonscientists. It has enabled people to...
View ArticleWho will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall's blog...
For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall's blog charted the murky world of predatory and vanity academic publishers, many...
View ArticleNew study highlights need to increase female peer reviewers
Publishers of scholarly journals should take additional steps to get more women to serve as peer reviewers of manuscripts, according to a new analysis by the American Geophysical Union showing women...
View ArticleInefficient scientific peer review process takes 4 months on average
Checking the research of colleagues is one of the most important pillars of academic practice. However, this so-called peer review has several weak points. Academics often complain about how long it...
View ArticleStudy examines gender discrimination in science
Gender discrimination can be found in the most unexpected fields. An international team, involving Demian Battaglia, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de neurosciences des systèmes, as well as...
View ArticleIntelligent crowd reviewing of scientific papers tested
(Phys.org)—Online chemistry journal Synlett, which is published by Thieme, has tested the idea of intelligent crowd reviewing of scientific papers. The project was the brainchild of Benjamin List, a...
View ArticleBringing a 'trust but verify' model to journal peer review
Academic journals are increasingly asking authors to use transparent reporting practices to "trust, but verify" that outcomes are not being reported in a biased way and to enable other researchers to...
View ArticleTransparency in peer review
In 1832, the Royal Society moved from using committee minutes to written peer review reports for determining what was published in Philosophical Transactions. This was conveyed by Frederick Augustus,...
View ArticleChance discovery of forgotten 1960s 'preprint' experiment
For years, scientists have complained that it can take months or even years for a scientific discovery to be published, because of the slowness of peer review. To cut through this problem, researchers...
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