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…
Strategies to cut student fees drift valued research
An evaluation of the funding policy of education post-18, hired by the prime minister, is presently underway. The extensively anticipated consequence is a cut in the tuition dues. This has…
Preparations to launch Saudi publishing house
The Kingdom’s minister of culture publicized the formation of a publishing house with an independent financial center according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Saudi Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin…
7 Steps for Structuring a Scientific Report for Publication
Writing is intrinsically a creative and structured process, which is when written in a technical form and designed to convey the scientific information to the research community is considered as…