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 […]
Seven Strategies for Publishing Qualitative Research
In the April issue of Family Business Review, Trish Reay, an associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Business, offers […]
How Few Papers Ever Get Cited? It’s Bad, But Not THAT Bad
Reports of their death have been exaggerated: a look at the literature finds academic papers are not as uncited as recent reports would have you believe, but don’t start celebrating over the genuine figures.
Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design
Patrick Dunleavy offers four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams to give the beleaguered reader help in deciphering your message.
How to Be the Grad Student Your Adviser Brags About
First, do great work. Second, make sure your great work is visible.
Academic Excellence and Other Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
‘It’s not what you know but who you know’ is a trope that’s common in many careers but which the academy often claims to avoid. Except that in many cases it doesn’t.
The Perils of Megajournals–and How to Avoid Them
You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether it is […]
New Leader Named for Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship, a Social Science Space partner that advocates for freedom of expression and against censorship throughout the world, has appointed […]
The Lowdown on Five Collaborative Writing Tools for Academics
Research collaboration now involves significant online communication. But sending files back and forth between collaborators creates redundancy of effort, causes unnecessary delays and, many times, leaves people frustrated with the whole idea of collaboration. Christof Schöch looks at some web-based collaborative writing tools and presents some helpful tips on finding the right tool for the job.
