A Disgraced Scientist and his Retracted Papers
Dr. Piero Anversa had built a dazzling reputation as a revolutionary scientist. As a professor at Harvard Medical School, he directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s...
The Curious Case of the Vanishing Borders: A Look at International Partnerships in Science
It will likely not come as much of a surprise to most of us that international collaborations and partnerships in science continue to increase as globalization and technology advances. Whether...
“Peer Review is Broken”
Since beginning my exploration of peer review last year, those four dirty little words have constantly occupied my computer screen. They seem to be everywhere, popping up in news articles...
The Upside of Rejection
Publish or perish. After years of hard work, months of effort are invested into writing, submitting, and revising a paper with the aim of publishing in a high impact journal....
Great Expectations
A comparison of two high-impact immunology papers published 42 years apart [dropcap]In[/dropcap] the months leading up to my qualifying exam, I had the inexplicable desire to read every research paper...
Publication Trends
[caption id="attachment_110" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Changes in selected publication metrics over the last 30 years (1982-2012).[/caption]
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