Tag: Publication Concerns

How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career

By Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin and Erin McKiernan | Published: May 8, 2019

A new preprint was recently shared on PeerJ Preprints on the Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Erin McKiernan discuss the investigation and the findings on how the flawed metric is currently used in tenure and promotion decisions in universities across North America.

Posted in Career, Communication, Impact | Also tagged Impact Factors, PeerJ | Leave a comment

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

By James Hartley | Published: April 12, 2019

Large data sets can now be quickly analyzed to assess whether or not certain features, previously deemed unimportant, can actually affect the chances of a research paper being accepted for publication. In this post, James Hartley looks at new research on weekly submission dates.

Posted in Communication | Also tagged Academic Writing | Leave a comment

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

By Social Science Space | Published: March 6, 2019

The U.S. military's innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA's first step to assign a 'credibility score' to social and behavioral science research.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, Innovation, Public Policy | Also tagged Center for Open Science, DARPA, Replication, Replication Crisis, Reproducibility | Leave a comment

Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout

By David Markowitz | Published: February 6, 2019

A text analysis of nine years of grant abstracts submitted to the NSF indicated that what researchers say and how we say it can foretell the amount of funding we are awarded. They also show that the writing funders idealize may not always match up with what they actually prefer.

Posted in Communication | Also tagged Abstracts, National Science Foundation, Text Analysis, The Conversation | Leave a comment

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

By Philippa Stevens | Published: January 28, 2019

Publishing an article in a reputed academic journal is no mean feat. From the initial grant proposal, through to writing the paper, formatting it to meet journal guidelines and then waiting for peer review to be complete, a huge amount of time and work is required. And that’s assuming you’re accepted first time! Here's how we counsel people about this at SAGE.

Posted in Communication, Public Engagement, Tips | Also tagged Author Gateway | Leave a comment

Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

By Brian Cody | Published: December 26, 2018

Plan S represents an exciting example of the scholarly community mobilizing to create funding requirements that could lead to an open access future. However, the plan has also raised a number of legitimate concerns, not least the absence of any incentive for publishers to lower journal costs. Brian Cody suggests how simple adjustments to the proposed article processing charge cap could encourage publishers to reduce costs and so free up funds for other open access projects.

Posted in Open Access, Public Policy | Also tagged Plan S | Leave a comment

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 18, 2018

Is scholarship that doesn't appear in the Social Science Citation Index -- a commercial index of ‘internationally leading’ journals in the social sciences, compiled by Clarivate Analytics -- worthless? Before you say 'Of course not,' know that some universities essentially are saying yes.

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform, Impact | Also tagged East Asia, Sociology, SSCI | Leave a comment

How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

By Katrina Newitt | Published: September 11, 2018

Most early career researchers receive little to no training on how to peer review, and it’s not always easy to find consistent or helpful guidance. Here, during Peer Review Week, Katrina Newitt offers some helpful advice on how to get started.

Posted in Career, Tips | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Author Gateway, Peer Review | Leave a comment

How Do I Get Published? Five Tips to Successfully Publish an Academic Paper

By Jessica Lipowski | Published: August 22, 2018

Standards are high and getting an academic article published is not easy, but there are certain things you can do to improve your success rate. A member of the SAGE Journals Author Relations team -- SAGE is the parent of Social Science Space -- offers five tips on the smartest way to navigate these challenges.

Posted in Tips | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Author Gateway | Leave a comment

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

By Tara Newby | Published: June 29, 2018

How can the impact of an academic article be measured? It seems that everyone wants to find an answer to this question – from the researcher and author teams that create research articles, to the editors and peer reviewers who curate them, to the societies and publishers who ensure that the articles are released to the world.

Posted in News | Also tagged Altmetrics, Society News, Tips | Leave a comment

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

By Richard P. Phelps | Published: June 25, 2018

The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. But when reviews misrepresent previous studies or suggest there's a paucity of information when there isn't, doesn't,this degrade the knowledge base? Richard P. Phelps argues that, given the difficulty of verifying an author’s claims during peer review, it is best that journals drop the requirement for a literature review in scholarly articles.

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Literature Review, scholarly articles | Leave a comment

Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

By SAGE | Published: March 27, 2018

In the latest iteration of a survey series she's been running for four decades, Carol Tenopir aims to assess the value of access to scholarly journals by examining patterns of use and reading. Your input is sought.

Posted in Communication, Interdisciplinarity | Also tagged Journals, survey | Leave a comment

Tag: Publication Concerns

How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

How Do I Get Published? Five Tips to Successfully Publish an Academic Paper

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

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