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 […]
Understanding Networking and its Benefits
[We are pleased to welcome Špela Trefalt to Management Ink. Dr. Trefalt’s article “How Network Properties Affect One’s Ability to Obtain Benefits: […]
Altmetrics Aren’t Always So ‘Alt’ – Ask the Developing World
The Web of Science and its corresponding Journal Impact Factor are inadequate for an understanding of the impact of scholarly work from developing regions, argues Juan Pablo Alperin. The altmetrics community should engage with scholars from developing regions to ensure the new metrics do not continue to cater to well-known and well-established networks.
UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST
Thursday’s mark-up of a bill that nearly cuts the National Science Foundation’s social science spending in half is stirring up the academic community.
State of the Stacks: Academic Libraries in a Digital Age
The latest iteration of a report on college and university libraries finds an institution with a clear sense that change is afoot but a slightly cloudier feel for how to address it.
Do You Have Research on Coaching?
Many of us have had mentors who helped us move forward in both our careers and day-to-day life. The Journal of Applied […]
How Much NSF Funding Goes to Social Science?
The social and behavioral component of the National Science Foundation’s budget is a small part of the total but of paramount importance to the discipline’s researchers, a relationship brought home as Congress gets ready to discuss funding.
Free Access to Women’s Research in Honor of International Women’s Day
This piece was originally posted on International Women’s Day at the Management Ink blog. It is re-posted here with permission. *** It was International Women’s […]
Embed With Our Enemies: Making Process Itself a Calling Card
While academic social science is extremely effective at generating public value, it is less adept at communicating this value. Sam Baars believes researchers should reflect on the ways in which social value is created not just from the findings of our research, but also the way in which it is conducted. He pushes for the adoption of a more ‘embedded’ approach to research which involves working more closely with the public, and public institutions, at a local level.
