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 […]
September 8, 2015
Federal ‘Common Rule’ on Human Study Ethics Changing
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Hidden Dangers
David Canter considers the fatal consequences of keeping medical problems secret
When Designing Multiple Channels, Mirror Attributes Matter
[We’re pleased to welcome Maik Hammerschmidt of the University of Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Hammerschmidt recently published an article in the OnlineFirst section of […]
Ranking African Universities Fraught and Futile
The director of directs the International Network for Higher Education in Africa argues that a nascent effort to rank the continent’s institutions of higher education ‘seems to me to be doomed from the start.’
Exploring the Nexus of Big Data and Official Statistics
While it might seem natural for so-called Big Data to supplement, improve or replace existing datasets and statistics, or provide entirely new statistical outputs for government agencies, some careful footwork is needed before heading too far down that path, argues Rob Kitchin.
The Art of Referencing in Scholarly Articles
The reference section of an academic work is more complex than you might think. The references not only provide validity to one’s […]
Five Things to Think About if You’re Considering a Doctorate
After collecting reflections on their PhD journey from 28 doctoral scholars, Rhodes University’s Sioux McKenna distilled some of their collected wisdom into five ideas that might make the uphill effort to earn a doctorate less of of a Sisyphean task.
Survey Finds Scholars’ Perception of OA Improving
The head of insights at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan shares findings from a recent survey of authors that finds few researchers are now unaware of open access, but their perceptions of quality still remain a significant barrier to further OA involvement.
Simple But Powerful Solutions to Education’s Thorniest Problems
Brief educational interventions that draw on social psychology can have a big impact on seemingly intractable inequities in the classroom because students’ thoughts and feelings about school affect their experiences of it.
