Coming soon: Don’t be an asshole reviewer!
Gather the reviews that you got for your research papers and grant applications. Everyone has one or more of those idiotic reviewers’ comments. Bring them out to have some fun.
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Pope’s resignation and scientific research.
You may wonder what has Pope Benedict’s resignation to do with scientific research. Well, not much. But the discussions that followed his resignation may be relevant. A prominent question arose Continue reading
How to steal scientific ideas.
Science is a business of ideas. By its very definition, researchers are required to generate new ideas. However, the ideas do not pop up in vacuum. Astute researchers have to Continue reading
One PI =One R01 grant.
The great economic crisis in the Western world has affected the academic and research institutions. One of the major funding agencies NIH has seen effective funding cut that has translated Continue reading
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was Continue reading
Scientific Research: A Ponzi Scheme.
Recently, a friend and colleague blurted out, “Man, academic scientific research is a Ponzi scheme”. At first I laughed at this but soon I realized his point of view. My Continue reading
Profitable reviews: Nature Immunology defends reviews.
In one of my previous rantings (Click here), I wrote about how journals publish reviews to improve their impact factor. Now, in the recent issue of Nature Immunology (Click here for Continue reading
Author ranking system: ‘Impact factor’ of the last author.
We all know that there is a very little room at the first author position on any scientific paper. There can only be one name. Even if two researchers equally Continue reading
Scientific misconduct debate: The idea is getting traction.
We have all wondered about the debate over scientific misconduct and the utter lack of accountability demanded by the ‘system’. Earlier, I have written on this blog (Click here) that Continue reading
Impact Factor: Who are you bullshitting?
At the lunch table, I was thinking of an experiment when my attention turned to a colleague whose paper was recently rejected by a medium caliber (read impact factor) journal Continue reading
