Social Science Space

While writing is certainly a critical communication skill, universities need to start learning how to thoughtfully integrate all available skills.

In The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public life is increasingly shaped by social media platforms.

Review papers play a significant role in curating the scholarly record. Drawing on a study of close to six million research articles, Peter McMahan, shows how review papers not only focus and shift attention onto particular papers, but also serve to shape entire research domains by linking them together and outlining core concepts. As such, the constitutive role of review papers and those who write them warrant further attention.

Should student social media posts be punishable, even if they are made off-campus?

“Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action,” a report released by the Global Public Policy Institute in March, works as part of an effort to put the Academic Freedom Index (AFi) into action.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a toll on academic freedom is several ways, in particular by restricting mobility and allowing for greater surveillance.

With the 10th anniversary of its launch upon us, we asked Bailey Baumann, an editor for SAGE’s open access journals, some questions about the decade and SAGE Open’s growth.

The Indian University Grants Commission (UGC) has introduced a number of policies aimed at addressing issues around the robustness and quality of Indian research. One focus of these policies has been the introduction of mandatory publishing ethics training for Indian PhD students aimed at reducing unethical or predatory research and publishing practices. In this blogpost, Santosh C. Hulagabali, reflects on the successful development of this course in his own institution and how ethical training may influence scholarly communication more broadly in India.

The impact of the pandemic on all sectors is only beginning to emerge and given the need for greater flexibility, […]

Theresa Jane Tanenbaum argues that publishers must commit to correcting all of their records when a scholar changes their name and not just the ones that are easy to correct.

Most science communication training programs query participants and get positive responses. But more probing research has shown that students consistently overestimate how well they perform.

Being bad at math can kill people. Even experts who should understand medical science and help us make good health […]