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 […]
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
Boost Member Engagement and Strengthen Your Organization’s Identity with Organizational Hashtags
How might social media strengthen organizational bonds? Stephanie Dailey takes a look at hashtags can foster member identification.
Advancing the Study of ‘Time’ in Job Crafting
Hannah Weisman writes how her team’s paper acknowledges the important role that “time” may play in shaping employees’ engagement in job crafting and job crafting outcomes.
Can a Mathematical Model Spot a Liar?
Besides our own critical faculties, is there a mathematical model that could help us unravel disinformation? Dorje C. Brody suggests there may be.
Microsite Offers Collection of Latest Research on Guns and Violence
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has collected some of the best and most recent, research on guns, shooters, victims and attitudes into a curated microsite.
Introducing The Publish Your Reviews Initiative for Preprints
Ludo Waltman and Jessica Polka make the case for a more contextualized approach to open access publishing and preprinting, and introduce the Publish Your Reviews initiative.
Special Collection on ‘Civic Life of Cities’ Puts Civil Society Organizations in Their Place
A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.
Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning
The question of what kinds of blogs were already being cited by academics, and what criteria they were using to guide their choice of blogs animated research by two urban planners.
