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 […]
What Do Rising Retraction Rates Mean for Peer Review?
Could the increasing number of retractions in quality journals be a sign that its time to embrace post-publication open evaluation as a corrective to pre-publication peer review?
The Economist as Rock Star
‘Rock stars’ are people whose work has incredible public influence, and/or incredible influence on public perception of economic thinking such that they become a by-word for the credibility of ideas.
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
Taking the Measure of Your Data, Software, Posters, Etc.
There are ways to learn about the impact of the all the collateral material that signify an academic career. If only there were some sort of ‘ultimate guide’ to show how …
Staying Up-to-Date on Your Articles’ Impact
This is the first of two “ultimate guides” on practical tips for measuring the impact of academic output. Tomorrow we will examine […]
Tweeting Academics Weigh In on Social Media
A new survey asks cyber-savvy educators and researchers directly about their use of social media.
Googling ‘Reference Work’ in the Age of Wikipedia
These aren’t the best of times for reference librarians, but the challenges leave only one option — to get with the times.
Social and Natural Science: Has the Square Been Circled?
A natural scientist reflects on a conference that focused on bringing natural and social scientists into a a shared, and continuing, conversation.
