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 […]
The Value of Peer Review: A View from Publons
Andrew Preston of Publons argues that while the academic community does “a pretty good job of peer reviewing,” the process remains hampered by the 19th century technology used to manage the process.
Congratulations to Group and Organization Management’s Outstanding Reviewers!
We’re pleased to congratulate Andrew D. Brown, Devaki Rau, Chris Robert and Li-Yun Sun, winners of Group and Organization Management‘s Outstanding Reviewer […]
Listen to the Latest Podcast from Human Resource Development Review!
[We’re pleased to welcome Seth A. Jacobson, Jamie L. Callahan, and Rajashi Ghosh, all of Drexel University. They recently discussed their article […]
Shutdowns: The Misfire Next Time
Although a U.S. government shutdown has apparently been kicked down the road just a little bit longer, but a potential new shutdown — and its ruinous consequences for grant-funded science –always seems to be just around the corner.
How to Create Lasting Change
How interventions are designed matter as much as what they do. In that vein, Harvard researchers Erin Frey and Todd Rogers have identified four pathways through which behavior change interventions can achieve long-term impact.
How Has Retailing Evolved?
From general stores to department stores and superstores, retailing has undergone significant changes in the past two centuries. In their article “The […]
Reversing Academe’s Sometimes Perverse Incentives
Peer review is a powerful tool for sussing out the truth, but it’s not all-powerful. We also need to develop ways to reward scientists who do make their publications, data and methodology open for even greater scrutiny.
Two Social Scientists Awarded ‘Genius Grants’
Economist Heidi Williams and urban sociologist Matthew Desmond were among 24 academics and artists winning prestigious MacArthur grants today.
