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Directly Tackling the Gender Bias of Wikipedia’s Social Science Entries
Communication
April 17, 2023

Directly Tackling the Gender Bias of Wikipedia’s Social Science Entries

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Do Conferences Still Matter? Yes, Yes They Do
Communication
March 27, 2023

Do Conferences Still Matter? Yes, Yes They Do

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Communicating Findings Should be Included in Research Funding
Industry
January 31, 2023

Communicating Findings Should be Included in Research Funding

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AI-Generated Texts’ Implications for Academic Writing
Industry
January 23, 2023

AI-Generated Texts’ Implications for Academic Writing

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Rethinking the Link Between Learned Societies and Academic Journals

Rethinking the Link Between Learned Societies and Academic Journals

Historically, there has been a tight link between journals, journal publications and a community of scholars working in specific fields of research who contribute to and manage them. Aileen Fyfe asks if we should rethink the structure of the learned societies that underpins this.

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Can Research Be Both Impactful and Neutral?

Can Research Be Both Impactful and Neutral?

As researchers in growing numbers subscribe to movements, Giuseppe Delmestri argues that researchers have a duty to take positions that align with their work, rather than hide behind claims to value-neutrality.

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Academic Publishers and the Challenges of AI

Academic Publishers and the Challenges of AI

The role of AI in the production of research papers is rapidly moving from being a futuristic vision, towards an everyday reality; a situation with significant consequences for research integrity and the detection of fraudulent research. Rebecca Lawrence and Sabina Alam argue that for publishers, collaboration and open research workflows are key to ensuring the reliability of the scholarly record.

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Coproduction, Critique and Collective Knowledge: Driving Positive Change

Coproduction, Critique and Collective Knowledge: Driving Positive Change

Drawing on work carried out for the Realising Just Cities program, Beth Perry discusses how co-production enabled participants to collectively develop and refine a form of critique that can drive positive change.

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Academics Can Easily Depart Twitter While Institutions Remain

Academics Can Easily Depart Twitter While Institutions Remain

The fate of Twitter has been a pressing issue in the past weeks. Here, Andy Tattersall argues that whilst individual academics could quite easily leave the platform, the centrality of Twitter to academic institutions makes a wholesale departure unlikely.

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The Future of Academic Twitter After Elon Musk

The Future of Academic Twitter After Elon Musk

After much speculation, Twitter has been acquired by Elon Musk. In this post, Mark Carrigan asks, if now is the time to rethink academic twitter by separating out the knowledge exchange and academic community building functions that have up to this point taken place side by side on Twitter.

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How Does Journal Standardization Impact Intellectual Creativity?

How Does Journal Standardization Impact Intellectual Creativity?

Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews with authors, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Kean Birch, Thed van Leeuwen and Maria Amuchastegui observe an increasing homogenization of published work. Weighing up the pros and cons of this development, they discuss whether it has enhanced or limited intellectual innovations in STS.

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Editormetrics – We’ve Created a FAIR Dataset of Journal Editors to Benefit Researchers

Editormetrics – We’ve Created a FAIR Dataset of Journal Editors to Benefit Researchers

There is little available information about aggregate patterns of scholarly journal editorships. This may change soon, as Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher writes, thanks to a novel dataset created in collaboration with Kerstin Shoch and Tamara Heck that provides new insights into the landscape of journal editing.

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