U.S. political sanctions on Iran curtail scientific progress
U.S.-Iranian relations lurched downward as the political sanctions imposed by Trump administration restricts the scientific progress and researches in Iran.…
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Research News Capsule
“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…
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…
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…
WHO joins Plan S
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a joined a group of science research backers who are supporting open access publishing…
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…
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…
IEEE lifts ban on Huawei scientist reviewers
Amidst the U.S. – China trade war, IEEE recently banned employees of Huawei from vetting submission to its technical papers…
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…
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…
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…
Open access: A healthy practice for the scientific community
Paywalls, which limit access to content without a paid subscription, block access to scientific research. The Business of Scholarship exposed…