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The much awaited Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® 2016 has been finally released. The JCR is the world’s most influential resource for evaluating peer…
- Kakoli Majumder
- June 14, 2016
- 300.4k views
The Fields Medal, which is officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is an esteemed award that is often described as the …
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 13, 2014
- 100.2k views
Scholarly Open Access, a popular blog that listed questionable journals and publishers, has recently been taken down. The blog was maintained by Jeffrey Beall since 2008…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 19, 2017
- 61.7k views
Last week, Clarivate Analytics released the much anticipated 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which includes information about highly cited peer-reviewed…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 21, 2017
- 55.4k views
Springer announced the retraction of 107 papers published in Tumor Biology, an open access cancer journal, as they found evidence of peer review manipulation. Most of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 26, 2017
- 52k views
P-values are widely used as the basis of testing null hypothesis, but many experts have been critical of the use of p-values. Now, the journal Basic and Applied…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 16, 2015
- 42.2k views
The 2019 Journal Citation Reports was released on 20 June, 2019. The report, which is a combination of impact and influence metrics along with data from Web of Science,…
- Fatima Qureshi
- June 25, 2019
- 36.6k views
Macmillan Science and Education, the London-based publisher of Nature and Scientific American, will merge with one of the world’s largest science publishers, Berlin…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 16, 2015
- 33.2k views
Scientific reporting is inclined towards publishing positive findings, and research that reports negative results is usually frowned upon. However, recognizing the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 27, 2015
- 33.1k views
The journal PLOS ONE sacked a peer reviewer for making sexist remarks on a manuscript. The editor of the journal has also been blamed for the oversight. The peer…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- May 5, 2015
- 33k views