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 […]
Diversity in the U.S. Government: Let’s Look at the Economists
A report from the Brookings Institution finds, at least in the case of economists, the U.S. government is roughly at the same place as academe when it comes to diversity.
Keeping an Eye on Who We Cite – and Who We Don’t
“Make sure you’re not only citing white guys!” That was the unmistakable takeaway Wednesday as Deen Freelon discussed his research into citation inequities in the social sciences.
Librarian Survey Focuses on Embedding ‘In Life of the User’
The report ” Librarian Futures: Charting Librarian–Patron Behaviors and Relationships in the Networked Digital Age,” follows from a survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons and synthesizes those survey results with usage data from Lean Library, data from a range of librarian and library stakeholder interviews, and contributions from partners scite, Springshare, OpenAthens and OCLC.
Leadership at Crossroads: To Dehumanize or Humanize Leadership Education?
Narrowly focused on leadership as a goal-focused activity, conventional approaches to teaching it, argues Shaista Khilji, have led to the dehumanization of leadership.
Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?
Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann discuss their recent findings on how retracted papers were talked about on the social media platform Twitter and how this can be mapped onto the eventual retraction notices of these articles.
SAGE Concept Grant Winners Announced
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has awarded grants totaling £25,000 to enable the development of six new software tools for social science researchers.
An Innocuous Quote by Interviewee 11: Re-Thinking Interviews in Social Research
Shamser Sinha draws on his experience in qualitative research as well as playwriting to reflect on how traditional social science research methods can learn from creative fields to better contextualize findings and recognize the humanity behind them.
Event: Value of Science: Data, Products and Use
Join the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the Coleridge Initiative for a two-day conference to advance understanding of the […]
