Social Science Space

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 […]

Academic book publishing is under threat. Global university rankings and competition for funding and international student enrolments are reshaping the […]

Un-modeling the ‘model minority’ — a term often used to describe Asian American populations in the United States — is […]

Gone are the days when science journalism was like sports journalism, where the action was watched from the press box and simply conveyed. News outlets have stepped onto the field. They are doing the science themselves.

When readers — even academic readers — do not understand an article, they are unlikely to read it, much less absorb it, share it and be influenced by its ideas.

More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues “to give psychology away.” […]

New research suggests that the pandemic has resulted in scientists increasingly using preprints to release findings, and that these papers are read more frequently.

No matter how exquisite the details, it is important to separate fact from folklore – which should not require cross examination.