Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
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.
Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal
No one expected Tamiflu to be a wonder drug, but indications are that it’s moderately useful in fighting a serious public health threat. But that message was lost last week in an ill-starred rush to beat up on ‘wicked’ Big Pharma, argues Robert Dingwall.
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 […]
