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scientific publishing

for-profit publishing

The cycle

Is it just me or does everyone see a self-fulfilling prophecy here?
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impact factor

The case for preprints

Daniel Mansur, the principal investigator of a lab at the Universidade Federal
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English language

English as the currency of science's practice

K. VijayRaghavan, the secretary of India’s Department of Biotechnology, has written
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pseudoscience

The language and bullshitness of 'a nearly unreadable paper'

Earlier today, the Retraction Watch mailing list highlighted a strange paper written
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pseudoscience

The language and bullshitness of 'a nearly unreadable paper'

Earlier today, the Retraction Watch mailing list highlighted a strange paper written
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arbitrariness

A conference's peer-review was found to be sort of random, but whose fault is it?

It’s not a good time for peer-review. Sure, if you’ve
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Office of Research Integrity

Some research misconduct trends by the numbers

A study published in eLIFE on August 14, 2014, looked at data
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plagiarism

Plagiarism is plagiarism

In a Nature article, Praveen Chaddah argues that textual plagiarism entails that
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China

R&D in China and India

“A great deal of the debate over globalization of knowledge economies has
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Analysis

Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science

On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: Excellent comment thread
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