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 […]
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Metric?
This Monday marks the end of the open consultation for HEFCE’s Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment. Steve Fuller argues that academics, especially interdisciplinary scholars, should welcome the opportunity to approach the task of citation differently.
Howard Silver named Senior Contributing Editor of Social Science Space
Howard Silver named Senior Contributing Editor of Social Science Space June 20, 2014 (Washington, D.C.) — Howard J. Silver, Political Scientist and […]
Policymakers Standoffish With Academic Research
The disparity between academics’ perception of the impact of their research and the opinions of Australian policymakers was recently underlined by a team of researchers from the University of Queensland who undertook cross-sectional surveys and semi-structured interviews with social science academic researchers and personnel in policy-relevant roles in public sector agencies.
Seeking a Research Rating That Isn’t Impact Factor
The signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment continue to explore ways to dethrone the reigning monarch of research assessment, the impact factor.
Recent Books on Brazil’s Culture and Politics
With the World Cup 2014 kicking off in Brazil today, how much do we know about culture and politics inside the host country? […]
Do You Use the British Library’s Social Welfare Portal?
If you have used he British Library’s Social Welfare Portal, please take our survey.
Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture
“America has achieved the distinction of being the country with the highest level of income inequality among the advanced countries,” prefaced economist […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
