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 […]
Wha …? Citation Counts Aren’t Necessarily a Proxy for Influence?
All citations are not the same. Drawing on a recent study of how researchers across 15 academic fields understand the influence of the work cited in their research, Eamon Duede shows how citation plays a role both in indicating and shaping the influence of research papers.
You, Me, and EMM
It isn’t immediately obvious why inclusion of a moderator’s cause should make much difference in a model. Only when one does the path analytic math does one see that the obvious approach to testing these models doesn’t work.
Project X: Resetting Our Understanding of Impact from Outputs to People
By focusing on researchers, rather than research, Paul Nightingale and Rebecca Vine suggest research systems would be better positioned to appreciate the multifaceted ways in which fields of research, such as the social sciences, impact society.
When You Say ‘Interdisciplinary’ I Hear ‘Antidisciplinary’
An interdisciplinary team is not a group of people trained in “interdisciplinarity.” It’s a group of people who have deep knowledge and sound judgment in their disciplines.
Alondra Nelson Tabbed to Serve as Acting Head of OSTP
On Wednesday, President Joseph Biden handed sociologist Alondra Nelson interim leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nelson currently serves as OSTP’s deputy director for science and society
COVID Suggests that Fear Itself Not Sufficient for Health Messaging
Research the author and colleagues conducted at Penn State shows that both the escalation and de-escalation of fear must occur for the message to be effective.
From Speculation to Substantiation: Is Job Satisfaction Changing?
In this article, authors Mindy Shoss, an associate professor of psychology in the industrial/organizational psychology program at the University of Central Florida, […]
As Pandemic Warps Productivity, Early-Career Professors Envision Changes Evaluating Tenure
A Canadian research team observed a profound ripple effect where reduced productivity from increased workload due to the pandemic impacted researchers’ progress.
