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Survey Sees HE Faculty Embracing Digital Changes 
Higher Education Reform
October 31, 2022

Survey Sees HE Faculty Embracing Digital Changes 

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Editormetrics – We’ve Created a FAIR Dataset of Journal Editors to Benefit Researchers
Innovation
October 20, 2022

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

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Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning
Communication
July 18, 2022

Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning

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The Journal Citation Reports 2022 Are Out. What Do They Mean for Sociology?
Impact
July 6, 2022

The Journal Citation Reports 2022 Are Out. What Do They Mean for Sociology?

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The Invisible Challenges ‘Foreign’ Authors Must Face

The Invisible Challenges ‘Foreign’ Authors Must Face

‘Scholars from the periphery’ often pay a price — unintentional but no less real — for their geography. In this post, Amon […]

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We Cannot Cite Our Way to Equality, But Citational Justice Is Vital

We Cannot Cite Our Way to Equality, But Citational Justice Is Vital

Reflecting on their work to create a guide to fairer citation practices in academic writing, Aurélie Carlier, Hang Nguyen, Lidwien Hollanders, Nicole Basaraba, Sally Wyatt and Sharon Anyango*, highlight challenges to changing citation practices and point to ways in which authors and readers can work towards equitable citations.

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Who Actually Makes Use of Open Access Research? We Looked at US National Academies Reports

Who Actually Makes Use of Open Access Research? We Looked at US National Academies Reports

Drawing on a dataset covering over a million user comments about their use of US National Academies consensus study reports, Ameet Doshi, Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo and Omar I. Asensio find widespread use of open research in the public sphere.

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Maybe You Can Judge a Journal by Its Cover: What Titles and Mission Statements Tell Us

Maybe You Can Judge a Journal by Its Cover: What Titles and Mission Statements Tell Us

Using a dataset of journals from the field of business, management, and accounting research,  Julián D. Cortés explores how the title and aims and purposes varies across journal, prestige, geography and publication model.

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Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing

Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing

Researchers need to observe ethical standards during a pandemic, say Ben Kasstan, Rishita Nandagiri and Siyane Aniley, and journals should hold them to these standards.

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Credit Due? Opposing One Form of Institutional Support for an Academic Boycott

Credit Due? Opposing One Form of Institutional Support for an Academic Boycott

Steven Lubet argues that while students have the right to call for academic boycott of Israeli institutions, their university has a responsibility not to award them academic credit for doing so.

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Does the Business Model for Academic Publishing Promote Scholarly Progress?

Does the Business Model for Academic Publishing Promote Scholarly Progress?

The the latest Questions & Unanswers About Social Innovation seminar series put on by the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation examined if the business model of academic publishing helps or hinders scholarly progress.

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In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals

In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals

Shannon Mason and Margaret K. Merga argue that researchers should adopt more careful citation practices, as a means to broaden and contextualise what counts as ‘prestigious’ research and create a more equitable publishing environment for research outside of core anglophone countries.

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