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 […]
Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago
A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.
Most Universities Don’t Keep Up With Changing Communication
While writing is certainly a critical communication skill, universities need to start learning how to thoughtfully integrate all available skills.
Book Review: The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media
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.
Does Research Being in a Review Article Cannibalize Your Citations?
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.
Campus Free Speech, Online?
Should student social media posts be punishable, even if they are made off-campus?
Report: Putting the Academic Freedom Index into Action
“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.
How Will COVID-19 Affect Academic Freedom?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a toll on academic freedom is several ways, in particular by restricting mobility and allowing for greater surveillance.
Marking the First Decade of the First Social Science Megajournal
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.
