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Reflecting on their work to create a guide to fairer citation practices in academic writing, Aurélie Carlier, Hang Nguyen, Lidwien Hollanders, Nicole Basaraba, Sally Wyatt and Sharon Anyango*, highlight challenges to changing citation practices and point to ways in which authors and readers can work towards equitable citations.
the authors set out to answer the question, “How are sources of organizational authority made present in the context of a crisis pregnancy center?”
Using a dataset of journals from the field of business, management, and accounting research, Julián D. Cortés explores how the title and aims and purposes varies across journal, prestige, geography and publication model.
Researchers need to observe ethical standards during a pandemic, say Ben Kasstan, Rishita Nandagiri and Siyane Aniley, and journals should hold them to these standards.
In 2017, the Arab America Foundation and its sister organization Arab American launched an initiative to create a National Arab […]
The UK’s Science Media Centre (SMC) is an internationally admired, and occasionally emulated, model for facilitating interactions between the science […]
What should those outside the conflict zone keep in mind as they consume news about the Russia-Ukraine war? Journalism Professor Daniela Dimitrova offers some answers.
The first SAGE Open Long Form monograph, “Corporate Core Competencies’ Essence, Contexts, Discovery, and Future: A Call to Action for Executives and Researchers,” has now been released. It discusses how even though researchers and managers value and even extol the importance of core competencies, they often present “a sprawling, even fragmented picture of core competencies’ essence and contribution.”
Research the author and colleagues conducted at Penn State shows that both the escalation and de-escalation of fear must occur for the message to be effective.
Reporting on their recent survey of websites cited in REF 2014 impact case studies, Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall and Mahshid Abdoli, discuss which websites are most commonly used as supporting evidence for impact and how these vary across academic disciplines.
During the dramatic halt to in-person events in 2020, the use of video call software skyrocketed, transforming Zoom into a […]
Making self-identification an everyday practice is one of trans activism’s most visible recent victories, particularly on campuses, and language is at the center of that change.
