Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct?
Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct?
Another free academic citation tracking service adds more competition to the field.
Hackers take to downloading academic articles and making them freely available on the Web.
A virtual lab—where all sorts of parameters are monitored and recorded—promises researchers a higher degree of reproducibility.
New technologies and mind-sets are required for information delivery in the age of genomics.
In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.
The winding path that an interesting result takes to become a bona fide discovery is just one of the topics covered in this new book on the practice of science.