U.S. political sanctions on Iran curtail scientific progress
relations lurched downward as the political sanctions imposed by Trump administration restricts the scientific progress and researches in Iran. Iranian scholars have been denied opportunities to publish scientific findings, attend…
“Indian researches have a very low visibility on social media in the world” according to a study
Indian researchers may be disheartened with this new fact that “Approximately 47% of research output from the world is covered in some social media platform” yet rarely any of it…
University collaborates with AI company to further medical research
Global consulting and IT services firm, Infosys is partnering with the University to develop precision medicine technology. The University will gain access to all of the AI problems Infosys is…
How can you know if a journal is ISI, Scopus, or SCImago Indexed?
As a researcher, you would want to submit a research article someday and for that, you would have to select a journal that fits your area of research as well…
Elsevier-Wageningen University collaboration will work on citation manipulation
On September 5, 2019, global science analytics business and Wageningen University & Research (WUR) announced their collaboration. Using Elsevier's analytical capabilities, the duo want to detect unethical addition of citations…
WHO joins Plan S
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a joined a group of science research backers who are supporting open access publishing called Plan S. WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ‘As…
Taiwan accepts double-blind peer review
Taiwan’s science department is planning to assent double-bind peer review to evaluate research grant proposals. At present, grant proposals include single-blind review where the name of the applicant is known…
Elsevier introduces Open Access for Physics
Elsevier is initiating an innovative open access journal spanning all the fundamental and applied fields of physics. The Editorial Board will be a collection of the existing editors of Elsevier’s…
IEEE lifts ban on Huawei scientist reviewers
Amidst the - China trade war, IEEE recently banned employees of Huawei from vetting submission to its technical papers because of sanctions against the company. According to the new law,…
India reconsiders graduate scholar policy
A committee of researchers has recommended the Indian government to modify its way long graduate scholar policy. If the country’s higher-education administrator approves the recommendations, it will not be obligatory…