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 […]
NIH’s Top Behavioral Official, Robert Kaplan, Moving On
The head of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is leaving that post to become the […]
CASBS Names 2014-15 Class of Fellows
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University has named 28 scholars to its fellowship class of 2014-15. […]
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.
