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 […]
‘Scholars of Democracy’ Sign Statement to Support U.S. Voting Legislation
A collection of prominent American-based “scholars of democracy” – the majority of them political scientists – have signed a statement in support of the Freedom to Vote Act.
Case Re-opened: Social Scientists and the Continuing Debate Over Loss Aversion
In recent years, many behavioral scientists have begun to question whether loss aversion is quite so ironclad a principle of the human mind
Work from Female Researchers Is Less Cited. But It’s Read More. Why?
The gender gap in citations between male and female researchers is well documented. Lin Zhang and Gunnar Sivertsen find that while papers authored by female researchers are less cited, they are more frequently engaged with by readers.
When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street
How sweeping should academic freedom be? Should someone who fought their own battle to preserve put conditions on what they would offer to others?
Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia
The question how to approach international academic cooperation with totalitarian China therefore leads to no easy answers. It nonetheless merits much greater attention than it has received so far.
Will Artificial Intelligence Foster Plagiarism?
At the moment, little guidance, policy or oversight is available regarding technology, AI and academic integrity for teachers and educational leaders.
Academic Collaboration with China is Important. But What’s the Price?
Totalitarian rule and the governance strategies it entails have direct implications for academic internationalization at Chinese universities and for their collaboration with universities abroad.
Covid-19: How to Learn the Lessons of Policy Failure
The dust is settling on the UK House of Commons report, produced jointly by its Select Committees on health and on science […]
