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Richard P. Phelps

Richard P. Phelps is founder of the Nonpartisan Education Group, editor of Nonpartisan Education Review, a Fulbright scholar, and fellow of the Psychophysics Laboratory. His ORCID iD is 0000-0003-4008-087X.

Posts by Richard P. Phelps:

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

By Richard P. Phelps | Published: June 25, 2018

The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. But when reviews misrepresent previous studies or suggest there's a paucity of information when there isn't, doesn't,this degrade the knowledge base? Richard P. Phelps argues that, given...

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform | Tagged Academic Publishing, Literature Review, Publication Concerns, scholarly articles | Leave a comment

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