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 […]
Ed Sociologist Pedro Noguera Awarded
Sociologist and education rights activist Pedro Noguera has received a second annual award that recognizes outstanding achievement in advancing the understanding of the behavioral and social sciences.
Washington Update: SBE Vacancies, No Clarity From Midterms
NSF’s SBE Directorate Seeks to Fill Numerous Leadership Posts The Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation […]
Charting the Road From Attention to Citation
Previous studies show there is low correlation between altmetrics and citation, but how do altmetrics compare to other metrics? Xianwen Wang and his colleagues recently conducted a study to answer this question.
Social Science in the News
ESRC Sheffield Festival of Social Science Sheffield Hallam University Social science is everywhere. From helping us to make sense of our finances […]
Locating International Relations on the Social Science Map
A just-published lecture on international relations as a social science suggests that no discipline is an island.
Asian Universities Continue Rise in the Rankings
As we continue to examine the role of ranking in the academic world, it’s worth noting that by 2040 it’s expected that a quarter of the Times Higher Education top 200 will be schools in Asia.
The Scottish Referendum: Social Science and National Identity
As the independence vote moves from all-consuming question to historical incident, what are the lessons that Scottish universities and in particular Scottish social scientists should take away?
Stanford’s Eberhardt Receives MacArthur Fellowship
A social psychologist whose work examines how racial bias–unconscious but still present–impacts Americans’ perceptions and reactions to crime is one of 21 new recipients of the MacArthur ‘genius award.’
