Japan: Another academic city planned

Academic Achievement Goal Orientation: Taking Another Look

[WHO Healthy City Initiative in Japan].

City environmental conditions are associated with health outcomes in people living there. World Health Organization (WHO) initiated Healthy City in 1986. To promote the networking, Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC) was launched in 2003 with local offices including AFHC Japan. As of 2010, 26 cities are members of AFHC Japan. A questionnaire was sent to those member cities. It includes questions...

Academic publishers' time-loop: another mechanism to manipulate impact factors?

The festive season at the end of the year is the time when it strikes us that academic publishers use their time machines to catapult their products back in time, presenting us with January and even February journal issues of the following year. For example, the February 2012 of Cretaceous Research was published on 30 November 2011; the January 2012 issue of Ecology Letters was published on 1 D...

Smoking brings another danger to children in Japan.

The "academic cartel": another pernicious weed in the field of academic medicine.