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 […]
Motivating Your Team Through Being Humble
Research suggests that the ancient wisdom of humility that partially originated from Eastern culture can benefit contemporary countries that cherish diverse heritage.
Why Jobs-to-Be-Done is Foundational to Digital Marketing
That’s a lot of new complexity to address in marketing—but the best place to start is with a detailed understanding of customers and their needs.
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 […]
Marking the First Decade of the First Social Science Megajournal
With the 10th anniversary of its launch upon us, we asked Bailey Baumann, an editor for SAGE’s open access journals, some questions about the decade and SAGE Open’s growth.
Daniel Kahneman on the Problem Thornier Than Cognitive Bias
Imagine two doctors presented with identical information about the same patient giving very different diagnoses. Now imagine the reason for the difference […]
Webinar: Opportunities to Cut Child Poverty: Understanding the Data and Evidence
A free webinar, scheduled for June 24, will focus on what we know about child poverty and how we know it: what do the economic and social sciences teach us about gainful approaches to reducing child poverty.
Questioning the Narrative of the Majority-Minority Society
“The argument of this book,” writes Richard Alba, “is not that whites will retain a numerical majority status, although I do not rule out such a possibility, but rather that mainstream expansion, which brings about a melding involving many whites, non-whites, and Hispanics, holds out the prospect of a new kind of societal majority.”
Should We Mandate a Course in Ethics for All Research-Based PhD Candidates?
The Indian University Grants Commission (UGC) has introduced a number of policies aimed at addressing issues around the robustness and quality of Indian research. One focus of these policies has been the introduction of mandatory publishing ethics training for Indian PhD students aimed at reducing unethical or predatory research and publishing practices. In this blogpost, Santosh C. Hulagabali, reflects on the successful development of this course in his own institution and how ethical training may influence scholarly communication more broadly in India.
