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 Cultural Roots of the Latest Big Retraction
Social psychology has seen more than its fair share of all of ethical lapses, argues Jonathan Borwein, who notes it’s been described as a ‘train wreck.’ What are the deeper causes and implications of this most recent case of fraud in the social sciences?
Is ‘Credentialism’ a Genuine Danger?
The values of a university education are many and generally agreed upon. But is holding a degree the same thing?
What’s Wrong With Academic Freedom in the UK?
Given the ferocity of the current assault on academic freedom, argues Daniel Nehring, it seems to me that we may be close to a point of no return, past which ‘tone of voice policies’ and similar control mechanisms may become a norm into which coming generations of academics will be socialized as a matter of course.
When Science and Politics Collide: Panelists Respond
Earlier this month Social Science Space and the American Academy of Political and Social Science held their debut joint webinar, titled When […]
Tell Us What Social Science Will Look Like in 2065
The social sciences are often marginalized in society and by government funding, characterized as ‘problematic disciplines’ whose impact is often misunderstood and […]
Stories of Research to Reality: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
New York University’s Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory to model complex decision making – “by the way, that is the hard science,” he says – which in turn demonstrates how social science really can matter in real life.
Giving Reviewers Some Credit: The R-index
Peer review is flawed, and a new index proposes a simple way to create transparency and quality control mechanisms. Shane Gero and Maurício Cantor believe that giving citable recognition to reviewers can improve the system by encouraging more participation but also higher quality, constructive input, without the need for a loss of anonymity.
SSRC Gets $3 Million to Study Research Methods
The founder of the academic publisher SAGE has given the Social Science Research Council $3 million from her own pocket to advance […]
