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 […]
‘Boss, Are You Still Listening?’
Effective communication is a foundational leadership skill, yet it feels like a lost art in this era of distractions.
CASBS Partners with French Online Platform La Vie des Idées
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is partnering with La Vie des Idées, a leading publishing platform for social science and humanities dialogue and thinking.
The Invisible Challenges ‘Foreign’ Authors Must Face
‘Scholars from the periphery’ often pay a price — unintentional but no less real — for their geography. In this post, Amon […]
We Cannot Cite Our Way to Equality, But Citational Justice Is Vital
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.
Sourcing Organizational Authority at Shadowed Organizations
the authors set out to answer the question, “How are sources of organizational authority made present in the context of a crisis pregnancy center?”
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 […]
