Fake metrics and how to spot themMany of you know the letters; I see copies of them several times a year: In recent weeks, two articles have been published drawing attention to the proliferation of fake, spurious and counterfeit journal metrics. The first paper, published in the Wiley journal Bioessays, attributes this phenomenon to the rise of ‘predatory’ journals with questionable…

Channeling a fascination with DNA into critical discoveries: meet the winners of this year’s Wiley PrizeNext Friday, April 17th, the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Evelyn Witkin and Stephen Elledge for their studies of the DNA Damage Response. At that time, they will be giving an honorary lecture at The Rockefeller University, which will be live-streamed as a part of the free Current Protocols webinar series.…

Honoring librarians leading communities of kindnessIt’s one o’clock in the morning on a Friday night in the dead of winter and I’m fixed in my unofficial "assigned" seat on the fourth floor of our campus’s undergraduate library. Head in hands, I resort to weeping in quiet frustration. I’ve been sitting in this seat reading and re-reading for eight hours already, I…

Leading the way with HINARITo mark National Libraries Week, we continue our focus on librarians with this next installment from the Research4Life publication, "Unsung Heroes: Stories from the Library", featuring Dr. Grace Ada Ajuwon, Senior Librarian of Reference and Information Services at the E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. When the World Health…

The long road of publishing as a medical student-first impressions from an M1"As you work through the research and publishing process, what do you actually enjoy?" (Without hesitation) - "Seeing my name on it". The above paraphrases part of a conversation I had with a resident physician recently. He publishes prodigiously for someone at such an early point in his medical career, and his valuable insights and…

10 things you need to know before you peer reviewToday, Wiley presents a comprehensive guide to reviewing, in a new area of our author resources platform. Our aim for this guide is to support reviewers by providing a summary of best practice and how-to guidance with contributions from editors and experienced reviewers around the world. This is an evolving resource which we will continue…

Meeting the eLearning needs of Generation Y"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." This almost proverbial opening line to L. P. Hartley’s The Go Between sums up rather nicely the reality of generational change. While it is dangerous to assume anything about an individual, how newer generations work, play and learn is very different from previous eras. Compared…

How to comply with funders' open access policiesWith more and more funding agencies establishing policies and mandates for open access publishing, we know that navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their open access policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their…

Spreading sense in the US: introducing Sense About Science USASense About Science, an independent trust founded in the UK to demand evidence behind scientific claims, has recently launched a US presence.  We learned more from new US director, and former journalist, Trevor Butterworth. Q. Can you tell us about your background and current position? A. I’m Director of Sense About Science USA. I’ve lived…

A visit from the authors of the future: Wiley welcomes Leiden University undergraduatesHow do I decide where to publish my research? What do I need to know about Open Access? How does peer review work? And what career options are open to me if I don’t choose to go into research? These are some of the questions Wiley addressed when a party of enthusiastic students from Leiden…