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 […]
We Unintentionally Hit a Nerve When Bemoaning the State of Peer Review
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to fix peer review. An astronomic number of ideas to repair peer review followed a tweet about the system.
Rethinking Cross-Cultural Training: ‘Maybe It’s Culture and Maybe It Isn’t’?
Training to help multicultural teams to mesh and feel comfortable together is reckoned a good thing – unless its done in an overly simplistic manner.
Pathways to Foster Employee Engagement Towards Sustainability
How can organizations get their members to engage in sustainability practices? The authors outlines several mechanisms.
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
Introducing The Publish Your Reviews Initiative for Preprints
Ludo Waltman and Jessica Polka make the case for a more contextualized approach to open access publishing and preprinting, and introduce the Publish Your Reviews initiative.
Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning
The question of what kinds of blogs were already being cited by academics, and what criteria they were using to guide their choice of blogs animated research by two urban planners.
Emancipating Women
In this post, Holly Slay Ferraro, an associate professor in the Villanova School of Business and Academic Director for DEI Research and […]
How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science
Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts in open science: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agenda in ways that don’t connect and so are not meaningful; loading researchers with off-putting, external bureaucratic requirements; and risking reopening ‘sectarian’ divides between quantitative and qualitative social scientists.
