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 […]
Maybe You Can Judge a Journal by Its Cover: What Titles and Mission Statements Tell Us
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.
Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing
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.
The Science Media Centre at 20
The UK’s Science Media Centre (SMC) is an internationally admired, and occasionally emulated, model for facilitating interactions between the science community and […]
Making Sense of What We Hear About Ukraine: An Interview with Dr Daniela Dimitrova
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.
Bill Edgar on Core Competences and the Importance of Long-Form Presentation
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.”
COVID Suggests that Fear Itself Not Sufficient for Health Messaging
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.
When Talking Broader Impact, Which Websites Do We Value?
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.
Where Do Our Eyes Go During All Those Video Meetings?
During the dramatic halt to in-person events in 2020, the use of video call software skyrocketed, transforming Zoom into a household name, […]
