Peer review is an essential process in science publishing. In this process reviewers are invited by the editors of the scientific journals to assess the quality of a scientific manuscript. These reviewers are experts in the field that the manuscript in consideration belongs to. It is a quality control process …

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I recently published a paper with Springer Nature in their Scientometrics journal as an unaffiliated author. Performing research, writing a paper, undergoing peer-review can easily take a few months to years. It is a time and energy-consuming activity. While I was not shy of working on this paper, being an …

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I recently published a peer-reviewed research article “A multi-perspective analysis of retractions in life sciences” with Springer Nature in Scientometrics.

Here, you can find post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Scientometrics. Post-peer-reviewed, pre-copyedited version of the article

The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org …

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In the previous blog post, I ventured into gender based differences in breast cancer. In this post, I attempt to find out key predictors of breast cancer survival in the dataset obtained after propensity score matching in the previous blog post as this will help us understand better, the results …

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Breast cancer is one of the two most common cancers reported worldwide in 2018 among both the genders. Along with lung cancer, breast cancer accounted for 24.6% of all the cancers ¹. As the name suggests, breast cancer is cancerous growth of cells in the breast. As both women …

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Each one of us harbors ten times more microbial cells than our own human cells. These commensals (organisms that live with you) govern a range of functions in health, disease and our behaviour. Some of the functions they are involved in are food digestion, drug metabolism, regulating metabolic rate, immunity …

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In my previous blog post, I discussed various players involved in retractions in biomedical and life science literature. One question that intrigued me and was left unanswered was — what are the research topics/themes that are present in these retracted publications? I attempt to answer this question in this blog …

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The fierce competition in academia and the rush to publish, many times lead to flawed results and conclusions in scientific publications. While some of these are honest mistakes, others are deliberate scientific misconduct. According to one study, 76% of retractions were due to scientific misconduct in papers retracted from a …

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In the last blog post, I talked about how I built a Content-Based Recommender System that could make movie recommendations catering to my taste. The data was collected from IMDb and contained information about 48000 movies. While working on that project, I took a journey to the cinema landscape that …

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A few days back when I was sifting through movies on Netflix, I decided to have some fun building my own movie recommender system. With the number of choices for movies, books, restaurants, news items as well as people to follow or become friends with on the Internet increasing every …

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