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The article reports that the authors of a controversial paper on stem cells publish a correction of their work in this week's issue of "Nature." However, the authors stated that their overall conclusions still stand. In this context, the correction states that figures showing proteins on the surface of the multipotent adult progenitor cell contained many errors such as duplications. This paper challenged the prevailing idea that only stem cells derived from embryos were highly flexible.

The article reports on the resignation of Bambang Parmanto, the editor-in-chief of "The Open Information Science Journal" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It notes that the Parmanto claimed the its publisher Bentham Science Publishing received a fake article without his knowledge. Mahmood Alam, director of publications at Bentham Science Publishing emphasizes the conviction of submitting fake manuscripts because of its being unethical.

Reports on the decline of international collaboration on scientific research papers according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Measurement of the percentage of papers published in all scientific journals; Percentage decline of the world average of international papers published.

Reports that the Indian government has been asked by the Indian Department of Science and Technology to re-examine a 30-year-old policy banning the publication of Indian editions of foreign science and technology periodicals in order to protect local publishers. Opinion poll to be carried out; Opposing views.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to Vladimir Svetlov's comments on the publication of S.C.Meyer's "intelligent design" paper in the previous issue of the journal "Nature."

The author presents several solutions to the problem regarding the replication of published scientific studies. One obvious solution is for journals to publish more papers that describe failures to replicate results. Scientific publishing's move online may be a big help, opening up new possibilities for sharing and commenting on papers and methods. Another possibility is to link to conversation happening elsewhere on the Web.

Reports on concerns about the way in which journals select papers for publications in the U.S. Controversies over scientific fraud and other disputed findings; Disadvantages to publishers; Suggestions to overcome the problem.

Examines the politics of scientific publication. Role of authors, reviewers and editors in protecting the quality of research; Trends in making decisions about the publication of a scientific paper; Implications for research and publication in biomedical science.

The article reports on the prevalence of plagiarism cases by several ministers and senior officials including transport minister Hamid Behbahani, deputy minister of roads and transportation Hassan Ziari, and science minister Kamran Daneshjou in Iran. It notes the retraction of the papers co-written by Daneshjou from the journals which published them. Behbahani remarks the untrue allegation of plagiarism at his co-authored materials. Furthermore, it explores the identical sections found at the paper on asphalt-road resistance by Behbahani and Ziari.

The article discusses faulty methodology in technical papers that reportedly escapes formal peer review. It focuses on hypothesis testing that uses some of the same data to test a hypothesis as the researchers used to formulate it. The article reports the results of a survey conducted by Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Chris Baker, and others of 134 technical papers on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that support this conclusion.

The article focuses on the initiatives implemented by the Nature Publishing Group to the journal "Nature" to enhance the accessibility of the research papers it has published. Machine access is being enhanced by the open text-mining. Papers reporting full genome sequences are freely accessible on the group's Web sites from the moment of publication. The group also introduces a creative commons licence for the reuse of such genome papers that allows non-commercial publishers to reuse the pdf and html versions of the paper.

The article reports on the argument concerning the growth of Supplementary Information (SI) found in papers. It was inferred that there has been a rapid rise of SI found in different papers published by authors and the magazine comprises an average of five SI found in their publications. It states that the increase is not caused by the volume of raw information supplied but on how the SI is being crafted. It was found that one of the papers which show the effective use of SI was written by P. W. K. Rothemud that was published in the magazine. A reader argues that SI play an important role in integrating files with those papers that are difficult to print, however, the large number of information provided may result to the exclusion of some data or not be shown in the paper.

The article assesses the cases wherein the referees differ in their view of papers submitted within the journal. A specialist takes in a positive manner when he find no flows on the application of the paper. In another case, a referee may recommends the publication of a paper but points out its limitations in the value of the finding. In another way, a referee may express reservations about the appropriateness of some of the techniques used by the author in writing a certain paper.

This article presents excerpts of articles published previously in the journal "Nature." According to an article published in the August 27, 1955 issue of the journal, there is something very depressing about contemporary biological journals. Paper after paper records observations or experiments, analyses them cautiously, and in a timid and tentative way compares them with previous observations and experiments on the same theme. Only rarely does the writer disclose how his work is related to the broad panorama of biology. According to an article published in the August 24, 1905 issue of the journal,a somewhat lamentable aspect of modern science is the vast array of unorganized facts which are awaiting coordination. This is too often because they have been amassed without any definite idea of the purpose which they may serve.

This article presents excerpts of various papers that were published in previous issues of the periodical "Nature." One of the excerpts has been taken from a paper that was published in the July 23, 1955 issue of the periodical. Automation was defined by R.K. Geiser at a conference on "Automation and Industrial Development" at Syracuse, New York, in May 1954, as the accomplishment of a job by an integrated mechanism with a minimum of assistance of any kind. Another excerpt has been taken from a paper that was published in the July 20, 1905 issue of the periodical. This paper is related to a commander, who sailed to make a further attempt to reach the North Pole. His plan is based upon the Smith Sound, or "American" route to the Pole, and his object is to force his ship to a base within 500 miles of the Pole itself, and then to sledge across the Polar pack.

The article discusses the dilemma of a medical student when he submits his research work for approval by a reviewer of a publication. According to the author, who himself has acted as a reviewer for many research papers and given his scathing remarks on them, it is very difficult for a medical student to swallow the bitter pill of rejection. A student is generally anxious and nervous while submitting his research paper for reviewing and there is always a lurking fear of his paper being rejected by the reviewer.

Reports on the warning of experts for the potential future legal actions from a paper published criticizing research on the physics preprint server ArXiv. Critics on astronomer Martin Rees; Accounts of paper of De Rujula as libelous in a court law; Actions taken by the court.

Reports on the increase in the publish of research papers in Australia. Reason for the increase; Effect on the research findings of papers not published by the leading publishers; Reason for which research papers submitted to publishers are rejected.

Reports the plan of the `Langmuir' chemistry journal to deal with a dispute over a submitted paper by publishing it along with an addendum that disputes some of its conclusions. Discussion on the contents of the addendum; Information on the research paper on nanotechnology submitted by Peter Schwartz.

The article focuses on the efforts of Max Haeussler of the University of California, Santa Cruz to serve science with his computer program that aims at using DNA sequences in research papers to link the publications to an online record of the human genome. Haeussler along with colleague Casey Bergman had found it hard to agree terms with publishers for permission to mine their content. Comments from Raul Rodriguez-Esteban of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH on the necessity of text mining are included.

The author reflects on the roll out of the CrossCheck plagiarism-screening by major science publishers on their journals in the U.S. The author argues that it is encouraging because many publishers not only tackle plagiarism but agreed to do so by sharing the full text of their articles in a common database and disheartening, because plagiarism seems pervasive to make such precautions necessary. Also investigated is self-plagiarism, in which the research copies his or her own words from a paper.

The article reports on the issue concerning plagiarism made by two Iranian government ministers Kamran Daneshjou and Hamid Behbahani. It states that the issue of plagiarism was detected when publishers of "Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology" (JMST) found that peer-review papers co-authored by the two ministers duplicate substantial amounts of texts and passages from previously published articles. Mark de Jongh, publishing editor of the JMST, explains that the two ministers copied 50% from the original source.

The article focuses on the lack of due credit and recognition for Chinese authors who have published scientific articles and papers. This is in part caused by the problem of name recognition compounded by the challenges of transliterating Chinese characters for English-language publications and by overuse of a few common surnames by the growing population. Publishers make things worse by having varying rules for Asian names. Also, some journals insist on listing given names first and surname second while others allow authors to present their names according to the tradition in their own countries.

The article discusses that the flagship journal "K-theory" has been split up into a strange dispute after mathematician Anthony Bak withheld all the received papers for its publication in Germany. It states that Bak left the journal because of production problems and high subscription rate. Then, he arranged to introduce a rival title with other publisher that offer lower subscription rate. The journal publisher fired Bak because of this illegal act. Meanwhile, information on the reactions of the editors on this initiative is offered.

The article reports that Ann Wolpert, the director of libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, has launched an initiative that she claimed will assign rights to the author in a way that would satisfy funding agencies. However, publishers argue that most journals already allow authors to post the accepted version of their paper online.

The article presents excerpts of research papers published in previous issues of the journal "Nature." An article published in the March 23, 1905 issue of the journal discussed the contents of the book "Die Kalahari." Another article published in the March 26, 1955 issue of the journal presented the views of scientist J.R. Oppenheimer on issues related to communication.

A letter to the editor is presented related to the publication of research papers, which should be based on quality and merit and not gender.

The author reflects on the increasing number of failures and sloppy mistakes into scientific papers. She cites factors that contribute to errors in research studies including carelessness, poor quality of preclinical data, and failure to understand the difference between technical replicates and independent experiments. The author reveals that handling corrections from avoidable errors in manuscripts has become an uncomfortable process in publishing.

The author reflects on the paper entitled "End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments," which appeared in the April 27, 2011 issue of the journal "Nature" as well as its publications. The author notes that accusation on the passiveness of editors was not distinctly addressed at the journal. He stresses the significance of recognizing the efforts of referees in making suggestions to ensure that claims that the journal publications are supported by relevant evidence.

The article reports on the move of the major science publishers to fight plagiarism in the U.S. It states that publishers such as Elsevier Ltd. and Springer are rolling out software across their journals that scans submitted papers for identical or paraphrased chunks for text appearing in articles that are previously published. It notes that the move is following pilot tests of the software that confirms high levels of plagiarism in articles submitted to some journals.

The article discusses the issues on sex differences in human clinical trials and animal studies. It presents legitimate reasons for using males in clinical trials such as minimization of variability and maximization of the outcome of the study. It recommends that journals should require authors to include the sex of animals in published papers and that funding agencies must favor researches that are more gender equitable. It also points out the need to consider sex differences in drug reactions.

The article focuses on the effort of "Nature" periodical to forestall the problem of digital manipulation of images by spot-checking the images in at least papers of each issue before publication. The periodical do its own tests on the figures to know whether the charges raised have merit. The periodical waits for the results of a formal inquiry before correcting the record.

The article focuses on the growing demand of lawmakers for greater public access to the literature. The demand is increasing in many fields like biomedicine. It is expected that the U.S. president Barack Obama will issue an executive order to make authors' or publishers' versions of research papers publicly available in the PubMed Central repository within 12 months of publication. It suggests that publishers should recognize that science's social contract is moving towards greater openness.

The article discusses the means by which journals select papers to publish. The selection is based on a peer-review process. "Nature Chemical Biology" included an article in their December 2008 issue explaining their selection process which involves a decision by the editors on whether or not to submit a manuscript for external review.

The article presents the announcement of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) with regards to the free service in helping authors to archive research papers. Encouraging sel- archiving is the main goal of NPG since 2005. In the later part of 2008, new arrangements will support upload for NPG authors. For more information and feedback, interested parties can access through their website.

The article presents issues and topics published on the web in the U.S. One article written by J. Ross and colleagues in the publication entitled "Journal of the American Medical Association" stimulated discussion of ghost-writing and guest authorship in periodical's "Nature Publishing Group" several blogs. The article documented a drug-industry practice wherein it pays unidentified authors to write a paper and adding as authors the names of academics who were not substantially involved in the research. Such practice conceals the pharmaceutical's role because it misleads doctors and other readers.

The article elaborates on the accusation inflected on Merck, an international drug giant, regarding the manipulation of journals in the U.S. The company was accused of manipulating research papers relating to rofecoxib (Vioxx), Merck's withdrawn painkiller, in some published medical journals. Investigations were carried out by Joseph Ross, a doctor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and found that the company apparently manipulated dozens of publications to promote on of its products. Merck rejects the allegations of falsifications and denies that the documents show any wrongdoing.

The article presents the views and opinions of several readers regarding the question of student Anna Kushnir at Harvard Medical school about the process of scientific publishing "Nature." Staff Maxine Clarke of the journal has responded that most published authors say that the peer-review and the publication process have improved their work. Meanwhile, Craig Rowell of Duke University has replied that people sometimes forget about the gate-keeper role of the editor in which he or she has the power to decide whether a paper meets the publication criteria of a particular journal.

The article describes the writings featured in "Nurture," which is the magazine for "Nature" journal authors. The latest edition of "Nurture" features articles on authors and editors of the "Nature" journals. The print edition of the magazine is sent to authors who have published a paper in the previous year. The copy is also available as a digital edition.

This article discusses the business losses of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the publisher for the open-access journal movement in the U.S. Open-access model is one in which publishing costs are recovered by charging authors, and academic papers are made available for free to the end-user. The publisher lost almost one million dollars in 2005.

The article focuses on the review articles published in the "Nature" journal. Recent developments in a topical area of scientific research are included in review and progress articles. Themed collections of reviews and related material are published as insights. Papers of outstanding interest that are setting new standards are progress articles.

Discusses the importance of publishing research papers. Challenges faced by the researcher in publishing the research; Need to convince peer reviewers of the contribution of the research to the collective knowledge; Achievement of a researcher if his or her work get published.

Reports that the U.S. National Institutes of Health has unveiled its plan for open access to research findings. Composition of the policy on archive papers; Criticism on the changes made to publication policy; Estimated cost to run the research publishing.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to two correspondence from Vladimir Svetlov about the proliferation of peer-reviewed journals and the publication of flawed papers, published in the previous issues of the journal "Nature."

Iranians struggling to secure free speech at home are facing a fresh set of restrictions from the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has ruled that editing or publishing scientific manuscripts from Iran, Libya, Sudan and Cuba violates the trade embargo on these countries. And U.S. publishers and scientific societies are divided over how to respond. At a meeting in Washington on 9 February, David Mills, the treasury official in charge of implementing the policy, told representatives of 30 publishers that anyone wanting to publish papers from Iran should seek a licence from the treasury department. He also suggested that U.S. scientists collaborating with Iranians could be prosecuted.

The article presents concerns of the author regarding publishing of his article 'Clear and Mud' in the journal 'Nature.' The 'News Feature' part of the journal points out that author's second sentence begins with a brand new term, Scleraxis. The author points out that while his second sentence indeed begins with a new term, it makes the transition, just five words later, back to the content of the previous sentence. While the author agrees that science writers should strive for clarity, they must be given the same latitude as writers in other disciplines to temper traditional rules of usage with individual stylistic choices that enhance what they want to communicate. Judging papers by methods such as LEX scores, which measure the ratio of everyday words to jargon, is, in author's opinion, underestimating the capacity of science readers to creatively and flexibly handle the jargon, stylistic variations, and idiosyncrasies of interesting science writers.

Reports that India has been eclipsed by China as a largest scientific power in the developing world, according to an assessment of its scientific productivity. Total number of papers published by Indian scientists in the scientific journals.

Reports on the need to include structural parameters or information in the published version of papers in the 'Nature' journal rather than as part of the Supplementary Information only.

Reports that the Public Library of Science (PLS) is considering publishing scientific journals itself in line with its boycott of scientific publishers that refuse to place their research papers in free online archives. Number of scientists who have supported the boycott; Goal of the boycott; Plans of PLS for the online publishing of scientific journals.

Reports the establishment of a publishing house, BioMed Central, to provide peer review for life science papers submitted to PubMed Central. Efforts of the Current Science Group to organize the venture; When the United States National Institutes of Health is due to launch the publishing house; How the related Web site will operate.