Biomedical Odyssey

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Citation Bias? In My Publication? Here’s How to Check

January 28, 2021

Although the makeup of academia and journal authors is becoming more diverse, the under-citation of women and authors of color is worsening. Here are some tools to check your manuscript.

Grace Steward ⋅ Events and Happenings, Perspectives in Research Academia, diversity, journal, manuscripts, Publishing ⋅

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Plan S: How Open Access Publishing Could Be Changing Academia

April 17, 2019

I started working in academia as an undergraduate laboratory technician in 2009. After a decade of experience and four years as a graduate student, I thought I would have run out of things that would surprise my family about academia. However, there is one side of academia I haven’t had a lot of experience with […]

Kyla Britson ⋅ Perspectives in Research journal, Publishing, scientific papers ⋅

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Open Access: Making Scientific Findings Available to All

August 15, 2018

Most would agree that a principal goal of scientific research is to enhance society’s understanding of the world around us. In biomedical research, we are particularly interested in discovering the workings of the body to find better treatments for disease and enact better guidelines and policies for healthy living. A crucial element of this endeavor […]

David Ottenheimer ⋅ A Day in the Life, Perspectives in Research Biomedical Research, Data, journal, open access, scientific papers ⋅

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