Communication

Round-up of Social Science Research
Communication
November 27, 2015

Round-up of Social Science Research

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Sustainable Discovery and Google Scholar’s Comprehensive Coverage
Communication
November 25, 2015

Sustainable Discovery and Google Scholar’s Comprehensive Coverage

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Prewitt: Good Science Will Always Find Its Use
Academic Funding
November 6, 2015

Prewitt: Good Science Will Always Find Its Use

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Round-up of Social Science Research
Communication
October 30, 2015

Round-up of Social Science Research

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Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

Sense About Science’s Tracey Browne last week delivered ‘The Ugly Truth’ – an examination of “the need to encourage accountability and support scrutiny over research” to an audience of academics, researchers, policymakers and learned societies.

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Reversing Academe’s Sometimes Perverse Incentives

Reversing Academe’s Sometimes Perverse Incentives

Peer review is a powerful tool for sussing out the truth, but it’s not all-powerful. We also need to develop ways to reward scientists who do make their publications, data and methodology open for even greater scrutiny.

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Data Sharing in Historical Perspective

Data Sharing in Historical Perspective

Who me? Share my data with strangers? Aren’t they my competitors? Would they use my data to criticize me? Would they take the credit (through publication) for my hard work? Would they understand my data well enough to arrive at valid results and conclusions?  I recognize the importance of data sharing in some fields, but …

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Why Did the Proton Cross the Road? Humor and Science Communication

Why Did the Proton Cross the Road? Humor and Science Communication

The use of humor in public discourse about science has grown remarkably over the past few years, and when used in science […]

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Round-up of Social Science Research

Round-up of Social Science Research

  The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 800 journals. The articles linked below are […]

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Survey Finds Scholars’ Perception of OA Improving

Survey Finds Scholars’ Perception of OA Improving

The head of insights at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan shares findings from a recent survey of authors that finds few researchers are now unaware of open access, but their perceptions of quality still remain a significant barrier to further OA involvement.

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Please Follow the Golden Rule for Peer Review

Please Follow the Golden Rule for Peer Review

Few peer reviewers are provided with any training or mentoring on how to undertake a review, and generally learn by doing. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to navigate the line between being both critical and supportive.

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Here Be Dragons: The Perils of Predatory Publishing

Here Be Dragons: The Perils of Predatory Publishing

The need to ‘publish of perish’ may send many academics adrift in unknown and dangerous waters of the predatory and vanity journals. It’s worth keeping a weather eye before sailing over the edge.

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