Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Research > Publication > Impact (You Might Need a Strategy for That)
A publication strategy should include carefully-defined goals, a purposeful timeline, and actionable steps for proposing and writing the kinds of pieces large or small that allow others to access what we’ve learned, produce impact, and propel our careers forward.
Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results
In a joint statement, 10 editors representing some of the academia’s most prestigious journals for management, organisational behavior and work psychology research, have vowed to publish research that fails to prove a hypotheses.
Between the Public Good and Private Pursuits
We need more research that analyzes the relationship between university rankings, citation indexes, and academic publishers, argues Michelle L. Stack.
A Modicum of Common Sense Helps Interpret Open Access Publishing
No one ever assumed that everything in print was trustworthy, says Virginia Barbour, and neither should that be the case for open access content. Content is what matters – whether delivered by open access, subscription publishing, or a printed document.
There IS Value in Adding to an Edited Collection!
Routledge’s Terry Clague sheds reasonable doubt on the assertion that contributing to edited book chapters is”akin to burying your research.”
9 Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal
Leah Fargotstein, a social science journals editor at SAGE, recently sat on a panel where she was asked some basic, yet essential […]
Fake Papers are Not the Real Problem in Science
Hoax papers, whether meant as a corrective demonstration or for more malign purposes, are a high-profile issue in academic publishing. But Achilleas Kostoulas argues that something more pernicious derived from a ‘culture of accountability’ is dogging the industry.
Open Access increases citation? A brief overview of two reports
A comparison of two studies on the coverage and range of citations in Open Access, comparing OA and non-OA journals.
