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The article focuses on research which found that the share of economics papers in leading journals focused on pure theory fell from 1983 to 2011. Topics discussed the include number of National Bureau of Economic Research papers released in 2017 that featured the use of administrative data in the U.S., a study which found that white men in America earned significantly more than black men and benefits of sharing tax records with researchers.

The article cites that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking to calm the fray over whether scientific results should be freely available. On Friday, it released a draft policy aimed at improving public access to the results of NIH-funded research. The proposal requires grantees to deposit copies of their papers in NIH's free PubMed Central archive once they're accepted by a journal and calls for posting them on PubMed 6 months after publication. In July, a congressional spending panel recommended that NIH post NIH-funded manuscripts within 6 months of publication, or immediately if NIH grant funds were used to pay publication costs.

The article presents the requirements for contributions to "Communications of the ACM," the publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Communications of the ACM is a newsletter and publication medium for technical papers and other materials. The corresponding addresses and person incharge of a particular topic is listed for authors who will submit communications or researches. Contributions include news items and announcements, function schedules, technical papers, letters and notes, and general interest. The policy of the publication is briefly described.

This article focuses on the academic plagiarism by young researchers and university professors as they are rewarded on the basis of academic publications they produce annually, as well as on the quality of these publications. The quality standards are often determined by the academic ranking of the conference or journal publishing the firm. In the pressure to publish, to proceed up the ladder, or simply to keep a job, young professors may be tempted to cheat their way up through the system. And many of them are able to hide their crime. Faking research data is one option, especially when confidentiality prevents disclosure. Another alternative, apparently pursued by is plagiarizing the published work of others. Choosing a journal in a related field, rather than one in the same field, would likely reduce the chance of an overlap of readership and of being caught. Besides, if one use a paper that's already moved successfully through a review process may increase the likelihood it would be accepted for publication again in another journal.

Last year scientists created a stir with a report in the periodical 'Science,' suggesting that people who use the party drug ecstasy may damage their dopamine neurons, raising their risk of Parkinson's disease. This week they published a retraction. Owing to a mislabeled bottle, they used the wrong drug in their experiments. Toxic effects that they ascribed to ecstasy were caused by a sister drug, methamphetamine, which is known to be toxic to dopamine neurons.

This section presents a list of research papers from India published in various journals between January 1,1999 and August 31, 2009 including "Overview No. 144: Mechanical Behaviour of Amorphous Alloys," by Christopher A. Schuh, Todd C. Hufnagel and Upadrasta Ramamurt, "Crystal Engineering: A Holistic View," by Gautam R. Desiraju, and "Pi-organogels of Self-assembled P-phenylenevinylenes: Soft Materials With Distinct Size, Shape, and Functions," by Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh and Vakayil K. Praveen.

The author discusses the components of telephone research. She describes the unique characteristics of phone research that seems obvious but that has major implications. She warns that the very fact that someone is calling about a topic may expose guarded information or fuel speculation. She also offers different approaches involve in competitive intelligence research. In addition, the author enumerates the issues information professionals need to clarify with the client, including the purpose of the research and the publication of papers by journals.

Research is being made available online in libraries and the general public does not have easy access to the restricted information. In June the journal shelves at the Health Sciences Library of the University of Pittsburgh began showing holes. Where current issues of "Leukemia Research" were once stacked, stands a small cardboard sign: "Issues for 2003 are available only in electronic form." or "You need an HSL Online password to use these computers." Restrictions in the contracts the university has signed with publishers prohibit librarians from issuing passwords to the public. "We are in the midst of a massive transformation to the digital library," says Patricia Mickelson, director of the University of Pittsburgh's medical library. Scientists and doctors find the electronic resources much more convenient and libraries can't afford both electronic and print versions. Pressured by a boycott, certain journals began offering free public access to back issues a year or more after publication. Minnesota Representative Martin Sabo introduced a bill, the Public Access to Science Act, that would forbid publishers from claiming copyright on government funded research--a large part of basic and medical research. Part of the problem, adds Deborah Lordi Silverman, the library's journal manager, is that the thousands of journals are put out by just a handful of publishers, who bundle their titles into "big deals" covered by a single contract.Also in June, a nonprofit group called the Public Library of Science announced that it plans to launch in October the first of two elite life science journals that will be free online to all readers. Funded by $9 million in start-up money from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and backed by prominent scientists such as Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health, the group plans to recoup its expenses by charging the scientists who submit their papers for publication.

The premier issue of a new quarterly, ACM "Letters on Programming Languages and Systems (LOPLAs)," was mailed in June, 1992. It is ACM's first letter-style publication dedicated to very rapid publication of short paper. LOPLAS will particularly complement two other already existing publications, ACM "Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)," and SIGPLAN Notices, by expanding coverage of the field. LOPLAS is intended to provide a timely forum for the presentation of short papers (5000 or fewer words, excluding figures and bibliography) describing research and development efforts in all aspects of the design, definition, realization, and use of programming languages and related systems. In addition to traditional research contributions, LOPLAS will include reports on the insights and experience gained by practitioners in applying and evaluating research results.

Editors of medical journals should agree to expose dubious or unethical research submitted to them for publication, according to a proposed code of conduct. Published by the Committee on Publication Ethics, which represents 178 mainly British medical journals, the code goes further than any other in obliging editors to blow the whistle. Editors signing up to the code would agree to try to identify and expose any unethical research trials and veterinarian papers more closely to spot conflicts of interest.

This article presents an overview of a study released by Thomson Scientific in January 2005. Thomson Scientific announced the release of a white paper titled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns. The paper indicates that journals published under the open access (OA) model continue to make a mark in the world of scholarly research. Despite ranking lower as a group than those published under traditional models, the growth in the number of OA journals is impressive--some rank near the top in their fields. Of the 8,700 selected journals covered in the Web of Science, 239 are OA journals.

For researchers, institutions and scientific publishers, the publication of high irnpact research papers is a primary objective. The British House of Commons Science and TechnoIogy Committee will be producing recommendations for the government on the future of scientific publishing later this year. Raising in an open access world, the costs of administration, editing, printing and maintaining journal Web sites will need to be covered. The main model has authors paying publishing costs for their own papers.

For researchers, institutions and scientific publishers, the publication of high irnpact research papers is a primary objective. The British House of Commons Science and TechnoIogy Committee will be producing recommendations for the government on the future of scientific publishing later this year. Raising in an open access world, the costs of administration, editing, printing and maintaining journal Web sites will need to be covered. The main model has authors paying publishing costs for their own papers.

The article presents a list of publications containing research papers received by the journal "Education Journal and Management in Education." "The Journal of research in International Education ," a publication from "SAGE," contains papers on redefining the international school for a globalised world, reflections on teacher relocation in the context of international schools and a historical survey of international education coverage between 1893 and 1944. "The British Journal of Educational Studies," from "Blackwell," covers comparative historical studies in education; reclaiming metaphysical truth for educational research; and social capital, collective intelligence and expansive learning.

Scientific and medical journals are not the sort of places many mistakes are to be expected. Yet Emili García-Berthou and Carles Alcaraz, researchers at the University of Girona in Spain, have found that 38 percent of a sample of papers in "Nature," and a quarter of those sampled in the "British Medical Journal"--two of the world's most respected journals--contained one or more statistical errors. Not all of these errors led to erroneous conclusions, but the authors of the study reckon that four percent of the errors may have caused non-significant findings to be misrepresented as being significant. Of course, mistakes happen in the best-run organisations, and there is no suggestion that any of the errors observed was a deliberate fraud. But there do seem to have been rather a lot of them. One solution might be for researchers to publish raw data as well as statistical analysis and conclusions. The real answer, however, surely lies with the researchers themselves.

The author reflects on the assessment of scientists in Great Britain. He states that scientists are assessed according to the impact factors of journals that they publish in. He asserts that impact factors are distorted by positive feedback. He cites the effects of the H index, a measure that counts the scientists' papers and the citations they receive.

Focuses on the research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust on the impact of open-access publishing on periodical publishing. Disadvantages open-access publishing; Increase in subscription fees to paper journals and their online editions.