Category: Articles
Version IV: Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Recently Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Associatio [...]
How to Uncover Academic Fraud?
Though fraud and peer review, doesn’t seem to be connected, among the scientific community, it is well known that both can go hand-in-hand and [...]
Peer Review Week 2021
September marks the start of Peer Review Week 2021, a global event celebrating the imperative role of peer review in ensuring quality & ma [...]
It’s Time to Critically Review Referencing
Referencing is an integral part of scholarly work. It puts the work of a researcher in context, demonstrates the breadth and depth of research, acknow [...]
Why ORCID is not ready for global application across different disciplines?
Publishing an article in a good, peer-reviewed journal is no petty matter. Promoting it to be more discoverable is far more difficult. But what if a r [...]
Is a self-citation index an answer to the menace of self-citations?
Self-Citation can be a double-edged sword. Sometimes it is an acceptable academic behavior or a prolific author while other times it is a shameless ac [...]
Effects of Open Access promoting policies of European Research Council
Increased data sharing among scientists and other non-scientists can generate vast benefits to society and eventually to the economy. This is what lea [...]
Pre-Publication Review: Ensuring Trust in Medical Science
The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), and the International Society for Medical Publicati [...]
The replication crisis is causing non-replicable studies to be cited more
Social Sciences have been facing a replication or reproducibility crisis because efforts to replicate past research findings frequently do not show th [...]
Key approaches to OA in Global North vs Global South – an example from Latin America & South Africa
The aim of Open Access (OA) is the free accessibility of scholarly and scientific literature to all internet users, free of both charge and legal barr [...]