Researchers work with data—data about phenomena, evolutions, and often individuals. You might be using hypothesis-driven methodologies or exploring discovery-driven methods. The data might be gathered in a controlled environment or from real-life situations. In every scenario, you are responsible for safeguarding this data while using it for your research. Whether you are collecting data directly […]
Every researcher who wants to publish research results, faces so called predatory publishing. These are publication venues that claim to be legitimate scholarly open access journals, but misrepresent their publishing practices. Because there is a wide spectrum from genuinely fraudulent and deceitful practices to questionable and unethical practices, we rather speak of predatory practices instead […]