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 […]
How Metrics Affect Peer Review for Academic Jobs and Grants
The aim of peer review for research grants and academic hiring boards is to provide expert independent judgement on the quality of research proposals and candidates. Based on findings from a recent survey, Liv Langfeldt, Dag W. Aksnes and Ingvild Reymert, find metrics continue to play a significant role in shaping these decisions, especially for reviewers who are highly ranked themselves.
How Bibliometrics Incentivize Self-Citation
Using bibliometrics to measure and assess researchers has become increasingly common, but does implementing these policies therefore devalue the metrics they are based on? Here researchers present evidence from a study of Italian researchers revealing how the introduction of bibliometric targets has changed the way Italian academics cite and use the work of their colleagues.
New Report Looks at Steps Toward Impact Measurement
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has released a report on measuring the impact of social science. Two issues undergird the report – that traditional “literature-based” measurements of impact are insufficient for modern demands to show value for money, and that new technologies make new ways of measuring impact possible.
What Can Yesterday’s Throwaways Tell Us About Sociocultural Branding?
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure seems to have been the case with Robert Opie, founder of Museum of Brands, Packaging […]
Is There a Spike in Crime on NFL Game Days?
San Francisco Police were out in force February 3, 2013. Having witnessed chaos after the Giants won the World Series months before, […]
Designing Better Customer Service Experiences Using “Sticktion”
The customer may always be right, but research has shown that their memory can sometimes fail them when recollecting service experiences. Fortunately, […]
Read the Award-Winning Article from Organization and Environment!
We’re excited to announce the winner of the 2014 Best Paper Award from Organization and Environment! Andrew Hoffman of the University of […]
Announcing the Winner of the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for 2013!
We are pleased to congratulate Indiana University’s Janet Hillier and Linda M. Dunn-Jensen, who have received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for […]
