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Should a big research (e.g., PhD) be published as one comprehensive high-impact paper or several smaller, faster publications?
Should a big study perhaps a PhD student’s research be published as one comprehensive, high-impact paper or split into several smaller, focused publications? A single major paper can offer a cohesive, in-depth contribution with broader impact, but may delay dissemination. Multiple smaller papers can communicate findings more quickly and stimulate ongoing research, yet may lack the unified context of a larger work. What choice is the best - having a comprehensive paper in high impact journals...
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What do you think about post-publication review? Should it be adopted more widely?
Conventional peer-review takes quite long, and is one of the major reasons for the snail-pace of the publication process. On the other hand, it seems attractive to quickly make your article public as a preprint (e.g. on bioRxiv), so that it can get readership and may be citations even before formal publication. Some journals (F1000Research, eLife, etc.) have started the practice of post-publication review. Here 'publication' means not 'acceptance', but making the article public with a valid...
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Are surveillance and 'omics' profiling studies being overhyped, and eating up the limited funding for scientific research?
These day, there has been a considerable increase in publications reporting some sort of genomics/transcriptomics/metagenomics profiling. While these 'omics' tools are quite useful, many researchers simply adopt them as they guarantee some 'data' output, irrespective of sample type. Whatever sample you take, it will always have some microbial species, many genes, and you can easily report this 'profiling'. To make your study look 'big', you can increase the sample size. Such studies get...
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What are the potentials and ethical challenges that CRISPR-Cas9 technology is opening up in modern medicine?
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, allows scientists to precisely cut and paste DNA sequences. This capability opens vast possibilities for medicine, but also brings significant ethical dilemmas.
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How do you balance privacy and public health in a pandemic?
Digital contact tracing involves a level of surveillance that could make a lot of people uncomfortable, especially given the involvement of large technology companies with spotty records on privacy. However, contract tracing represents one of the most potent methods for combating the pandemic and is only useful if implemented on a wide scale. How do we balance privacy and public health in these times?
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It seems Duffy negativity does not offer a 100% resistance to vivax malaria in Africans; any clues as to why this is so?????
Duffy polymorphism and malaria, any link?
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When it comes to "review" publications, which author is considered more important: the first or the last?
If you decide to be the first author of a review article, and the remaining contributors have equal involvement, how should the last author be chosen? Or in other words, how can you indicate in the manuscript that the last-listed author contributed equally and is not being positioned as the senior author?
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Can pesticides penetrate into fruits and vegetables as well as on their surface? Is it possible to completely remove pesticide residue?
Can pesticides penetrate not only the outside but also the inside of vegetables and fruits? How to remove pesticide residue from the surface? Is it possible to completely remove pesticide residue?
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How can AI-enhanced modeling reshape climate-resilient water management in data-scarce regions over the next decade?
Water security is becoming one of the most critical challenges of our time, particularly in regions where hydrological data is scarce or unreliable. At the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning are revolutionizing how we model environmental systems. The question is: Can these technologies bridge the data gap, improve decision-making, and help design sustainable, climate-resilient water management systems? We're looking for scientific insights, innovative use cases, and...
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Are their any benefits, if a recent PhD graduate have too many peer-reviewed publications as first author?
fresh PhD graduates face difficulties sometimes to apply for postdoc positions and for funds as an independent researcherÂ
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