Tag: publish or perish

Amila Suraweera

Overcoming Adversity

by Amila Suraweera The saying “publish or perish” resonates with every scientist. Publishing is our bread and butter and without it, our research careers cannot...

VIDEO: Why are papers rejected? How can you become a peer-reviewer?...

At the Virtual EACR Congress in June, we gathered senior editors from top cancer research journals for an insightful discussion about scientific publication. Professors Alberto...

The F-word, or how to fight fires in the research literature

At home, I am constantly fighting the F-word. Channelling my mother, I find myself saying things like ‘don’t use that word’, ‘not here’, ‘not...
Plan S

Plan S for Open Access: last chance to give feedback

We wrote last year about cOAlition S, the coalition formed by research funders from several European countries, committed to making published research publicly available. The key...
Samantha Terry

Life in the Lab – Life IS the Lab

by Samantha Terry I am a new-ish lecturer with a small group of just one postdoc. Together we’re studying the use of radioactivity to image and...

Retraction Watch launches public retraction database

You've probably heard of Retraction Watch, the influential research integrity blog that reports on the retraction of scientific papers, aiming to increase transparency in...
Cancer Researcher EACR Science Communication Prize

The Journey to Publication: WINNER of The Cancer Researcher-EACR Science Communication...

We invited cancer researchers at all levels to write a blog post about working in cancer research for The Cancer Researcher-EACR Science Communication Prize 2018....

Love and fear in the lab: watch the EACR25 Opening Lecture...

When Uri Alon got stuck during his PhD, he felt unworthy of being called a scientist because he was never taught that scientists can...
cOAlitionS

cOAlition S: the tipping point for European Open Access?

We all know that many funding organisations are committed to Open Access publishing. But could a new coalition, cOAlition S, finally make it a reality? 11...
research ethics

News Summary: ethical reporting of research, indexing preprints, rare cancers

Does a 'publish or perish' ethos affect the ethical reporting of research? Several publications in recent years have suggested that published scientific findings can be...

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