Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Amicus Curiae: Friend of the Court, Friend of the Academy
A friend of the court brief just filed by the American Sociological Association in defense of legalizing gay marriage offers a perch for observing how scholarly organizations sometimes weigh in when matters of public policy reach the courtroom.
The Border Does Not Pass Through the Classroom
Whether it’s the DREAM Act in the United States or the crackdown sought by the UK Visas and Immigration in Britain, universities are becoming a flashpoint of immigration policy.
Fake Papers are Not the Real Problem in Science
Hoax papers, whether meant as a corrective demonstration or for more malign purposes, are a high-profile issue in academic publishing. But Achilleas Kostoulas argues that something more pernicious derived from a ‘culture of accountability’ is dogging the industry.
How Service Teams’ Perceived Relationship with Their Leader Affects Performance
[We are pleased to welcome Dr. Alexander Benlian. His article titled “Are We Aligned…Enough? The Effects of Perceptual Congruence Between Service Teams and […]
Include Me In: Social Sciences and the Innovation Deficit
With a little more wiggle room in the U.S. budget this year, proponents of strong federal support for R&D and higher education are trying to get their message out about America’s lagging innovation. Social science and the STEM fields are making common cause in the campaign.
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.
Trying to Improve Marketing Education?
Interested in developing your marketing instruction? Check out the Journal of Marketing Education‘s new Editor’s Choice collection titled “Evidence-Based Methods for Improving […]
Hey Oscar, Are Awards a Double-Edged Sword?
In a study drawn from the world of book awards, two academics suggest that overt and high-profile recognition can reduce the public’s perception of a winning work.
