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Ranga P. Dias (US), a physicist at the University of Rochester, was in 2024 found by an investigatory committee to have committed "research misconduct" related to his work on alleged superconducting materials. [262] [263] A 2023 report in Science noted that at least 21% of Dias's 2013 doctoral thesis had been copied from uncredited sources. [264]
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing[ 1][ 2] or deceptive publishing, [ 3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer review process, is highly non ...
Amazon is a reliable source for basic information about a work (such as release date, ISBN, etc.), although it is unnecessary to cite Amazon when the work itself may serve as a source for that information (e.g., authors' names and ISBNs). Future release dates may be unreliable.
Credit - Illustration by Lorenzo Gritti for TIME. A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom ...
The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...
Social Research. (journal) Social Research: An International Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the social sciences, published by The New School for Social Research, the graduate social science division of The New School. The journal has been published continuously since 1934. The editor-in-chief is Oz Frankel.
A Cornell University study that year [357] said that 85 percent of Amazon's high-status consumer reviewers "had received free products from publishers, agents, authors and manufacturers." By June 2011, Amazon had moved into the publishing business and begun to solicit positive reviews from established authors in exchange for increased promotion ...
Social Work Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social work. It was established in 1977 as Social Work Research and Abstracts, and in 1995, this split into two separate journals: Social Work Research and Social Work Abstracts. It is published by Oxford University Press as part of their partnership with the National ...