Digital Foresnics
Digital forensics, also referred to as digital forensic science, is a subfield of forensic science that deals with the retrieval and examination of data discovered in digital devices, frequently in connection with cybercrimes. • Certain requirements must be met for the findings to be acceptable in a...
Impact of AI on Cybersecurity
The ultimate goal of AI is to create intelligent machines or technology that can perform and automate human tasks at a much higher level, complete them much faster, and provide solutions for complex tasks beyond human capabilities. AI security solutions can offer major benefits to cybersecurity. Alt...
World Scientists Rankings 2023
Stanford University, USA has recently updated the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists. This ranking, which is the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 190,000 researchers from all the world out of about 9 million scienti...
Ethical Implications of AI-Generated Content
As AI technology continues to evolve, the ethical discourse should evolve alongside it. Feel free to leave your comments here.
Regulation of AI
People are paying closer attention to artificial intelligence (AI) than ever. Governments and organizations around the globe are now responding by developing AI regulations to establish guidelines in their jurisdictions around technology — and, most importantly, around the elements of inclusivity an...
AI in Scholarly Publishing
Discuss the latest news and trends regarding AI and how it influences scholarly publishing.
Textbooks - Online v. Print
Which do you prefer? What are the pros and cons of online textbooks versus print copies, and how is the shift to digital affecting the publishing community?
Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing
Humanities and Social Sciences combining in publishing
Diversity in Clinical Trials
Discussion of diversity for clinical trials members
Data Sharing
Data sharing within the scholarly publishing community
Women and Girls in Science
International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February. It aims to connect the International Community to Women and Girls in Science, strengthening the ties between science, policy, and society for strategies oriented towards the future.
Cyber Security
Ethical hacking, cyber security attack
Humanoid bionic robots
Humanoid robots are a gloomy concept, yet they are gradually coming to life. Xiaomi has unveiled its own version of the Atlas, an athletic android created by Boston Dynamics, called the CyberOne, although it lacks the parkour flare. In addition to having increased emotional intelligence, the robot w...
Should Americans Stop Being Fat?
A hub to consider the question of whether an average American should be fat or not. Thank you
Journal Impact Factors--A Relic of the Pre-digital Age?
Careers and grant funding can both be dependent on number of publications x journal impact factors, but do these metrics really mean anything anymore?
Evidence Based Public Health
In the past 10 years, nearly 1 million epidemiological studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals, but are their findings having any real impact? Do epidemiologists view encouraging application of their findings as a high priority? Do practitioners consult and understand epidemiological f...
Standardizing Journal Articles
Wouldn't the world be a better place if there were more standardization for how researchers report their results/protocols in peer-reviewed journals? Or would greater acceptance of the guidelines stifle flexibility?
Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property describes a wide variety of property created by musicians, authors, artists, and inventors. The law of intellectual property typically encompasses the areas of Copyright, Patents, and trademark law.
Academic freedom issues
Share your opinion regarding the impact of the internationalization of higher education on academic freedom, threats to academic freedom, the voice of the academic community about academic freedom, etc.
English as the international language of science
Share your ideas and suggestions about English as the international language of science
Scientific Entrepreneurship
What is the focus of the research result? What is the invention/novelty of the research result? Does the invention/research result already exist? Has the Proof of Concept already been formulated? Has the technology been developed in the laboratory or does the prototype already exist? Has the researc...
Academic Integrity in Research
Academic integrity often is assumed to apply to students, but of course we also expect integrity from academic researchers as well. What types of violations in research/academic integrity have you witnesses among researchers/faculty? What are your thoughts on "self-plagiarism" and reuse of research/...
Ethical and Scientific Issues in your Field
What would you say are common ethical or scientific issues that come up in your research?
Open Access Publishing: Obstacles and Options
A Hub dedicated to keeping everyone up to to date on trends in open access publishing worldwide. New to open access? Ask questions. Published open access previously? Share your experience and/or resources with other researchers.
LetPub Webinar Series Open Discussion
Welcome to the LetPub Webinar Series Open Discussion! This hub is hosted by Dr. Avriel Licciardi and Dr. Clark Holdsworth. We'll be having a discussion here every month that follows up on our webinar series over at www.letpub.com.