peer review

otherness, power differential, women in STEM, peer review, academia, teaching, kindness, benevolent hierarchy, tenure, neuroscience, neurobiology, rationality,

Where Can You Find the Good Place to Do Good Science?

Indira M. Raman 03/10/2019

Informal teaching situations can be the antidote to each...

missing heritability problem, gene variants, rare diseases, genome wide association studies, whole genome sequencing, DNA sequencing, body mass index, human body height, polygenic risk score, preprint paper, peer review, genetic variation, heritability,

Preprint Study Offers Glimpse of Solution to Missing Heritability Problem

Sukanya Charuchandra 20/05/2019

While researchers have known that a human body's height...

K VijayRaghavan, P Balaram, reward for publication, impact factor, scientific research, peer review, prestigious journals, science journals, Current Science, MHRD, Department of Science and Technology, PhD, Indian higher education, postdoc, stipend hike, research misconduct, publish or perish,

Let’s Discuss the ‘Reward for Publication’ Idea Instead of Trashing It so Fast

Sudhakar Srivastava 07/02/2019

Like any policy, there are bound to be shortcomings...

Open Science Framework, Registered Reports, peer review, replication crisis, scientific research, John Ioannidis, biomedical research, scientific papers, conflict of interest, data sharing, experimental protocols, independent verification, scientific publishing, scientometrics

Biomedical Papers Are More Transparent and Reproducible Today Than Before

Lakshmi Supriya 27/11/2018

Many efforts are being made to improve scientific research's...

science journalism, Nature News, Tom Sheldon, open access, scientific publishing, science journals, scientific journals, peer review, impact factor, post-publication peer review, science communication, IISc superconductivity,

Debate: Preprints Are Double-Edged and Their Risks Outweigh Their Benefits

Jay Desai 06/11/2018

Preprints are likely to create confusion and distortion, and...

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony underway at the Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Boston. Credit: Improbable Research

Infinite in All Directions: Will an Indian Win the Ig Nobel Prize by 2035?

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/09/2018

The ideas that win the Ig Nobel Prizes may...

It is incorrect to call them 'predatory' journals because the term predatory suggests that there is a predator and a victim. Credit: nile/pixabay

‘Predatory’ Is a Misnomer in the Unholy Nexus Between Journals and Plagiarism

Rashmi Raniwala and Sudhir Raniwala 10/08/2018

In academia, the crime of plagiarism used to be...