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Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 18, 2018

Is scholarship that doesn't appear in the Social Science Citation Index -- a commercial index of ‘internationally leading’ journals in the social sciences, compiled by...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact | Tagged East Asia, Publication Concerns, Sociology, SSCI | Leave a comment

Economist Paul Johnson Says the Known Knowns Are Killing Us

By Social Science Space | Published: November 1, 2018

Paul Johnson had one key theme in his SAGE Publishing lecture for the Campaign for Social Science: Long-term policy needs to be developed across government...

Also posted in Brexit, International Debates | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Economics, Paul Johnson | Leave a comment

Citizen Social Scientists Edit Day’s News with New Tool

By Michael Todd | Published: October 10, 2018

Sociologist Nick Adams' TagWorks methodology is being used to rate -- and in turn improve -- the most shared news stories of the day via...

Also posted in Impact, International Debates | Tagged Nick Adams, PublicEditor | Leave a comment

Archived Webinar: How Students Can Tell Better Stories

By SAGE | Published: September 24, 2018

One of the most frustrating things media instructors face is the lack of quality writing that their students produce. While instructors aren’t looking for the...

Also posted in Career, Tips | Tagged Journalistic Writing, Vincent Filak | Leave a comment

‘But I’m Not going into News!’ (Why You Need to Know the Basics of Media Writing)

By Vince Filak | Published: September 3, 2018

There are a lot of commonalities between what makes for good news pieces and good announcements: Quality quotes, getting to the point immediately and avoiding...

Posted in Communication | Tagged Journalistic Writing | Leave a comment

How to Annoy Your Survey Participants in Six Easy Steps

By Vince Filak | Published: August 22, 2018

Journalism professor Vince Filak opted to be a nice guy and answer a quick survey from a university he'd once attended. 'I’m not sure how...

Also posted in Research, Tools | Tagged survey, Tips | Leave a comment

Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: July 19, 2018

New Video highlighting the July 19th session held at the Brookings Institution on the new 2018 volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of...

Also posted in Videos | Tagged AAPSS, Evidence-Based Policy, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | Leave a comment

SciFoo18: The Joys of the Unstructured

By Ziyad Marar | Published: June 28, 2018

SAGE's Ziyad Marar describes his recent time at the 2018 SciFoo and some of his impressions mingling with its 330 assembled scientists, technologists, writers and...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debates | Tagged SciFoo | Leave a comment

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...

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

Report: Math Skills Increasingly Important for Social Science Grads

By Social Science Space | Published: June 8, 2018

A new report from Britain’s Campaign for Social Science, Positive Prospects: Careers for Social Scientists and Why Data and Number Skills Matter, argues that at...

Also posted in Career, Impact | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Positive Prospects | Leave a comment

Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract

By Lucy Lambe | Published: May 31, 2018

Publishing research that can be accessed as widely as possible is clearly crucial, but ensuring that research is accessible to similarly large groups of people...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, Research, Tips | Tagged LSE, Open Access | Leave a comment

The Value of Big Data Creation

By SAGE | Published: May 12, 2018

How do firms transform big data and why do firms differ in their abilities to create value from big data? in a research article that...

Also posted in Bookshelf, Impact, Research | Tagged Big Data, Resource Management, Strategic Organization | Leave a comment

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Communication

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Economist Paul Johnson Says the Known Knowns Are Killing Us

Citizen Social Scientists Edit Day’s News with New Tool

Archived Webinar: How Students Can Tell Better Stories

‘But I’m Not going into News!’ (Why You Need to Know the Basics of Media Writing)

How to Annoy Your Survey Participants in Six Easy Steps

Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

SciFoo18: The Joys of the Unstructured

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

Report: Math Skills Increasingly Important for Social Science Grads

Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract

The Value of Big Data Creation

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