Publication Concerns

NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust
Announcements
October 7, 2021

NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust

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Gearing Up or Burning Out? Survey Findings Show Wellbeing is Top Concern for Higher Ed Faculty
Insights
September 16, 2021

Gearing Up or Burning Out? Survey Findings Show Wellbeing is Top Concern for Higher Ed Faculty

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Does Research Being in a Review Article Cannibalize Your Citations?
Impact
July 2, 2021

Does Research Being in a Review Article Cannibalize Your Citations?

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Should We Mandate a Course in Ethics for All Research-Based PhD Candidates?
Ethics
June 11, 2021

Should We Mandate a Course in Ethics for All Research-Based PhD Candidates?

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Publishers: Changing the Names of Trans People in Their Own Work is Not Enough

Publishers: Changing the Names of Trans People in Their Own Work is Not Enough

Theresa Jane Tanenbaum argues that publishers must commit to correcting all of their records when a scholar changes their name and not just the ones that are easy to correct.

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Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard

Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard

Volunteer reviewers are one key obstacle – or ally – in seeing scholarship from indigenous authors makes into mainstream academic journals. Here are some tips to remove obstacles.

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NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research

NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research

Behavioral and social science grant recipients from America’s National Institutes of Health appear to have not published their results within five years at a greater rate than for their non-behavioral peers. An NIH director investigated …

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I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal

I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal

I claimed that New Mexico is part of the Galapagos Islands, that craniotomy is a legitimate means of assessing student learning, and that all my figures were made in Microsoft Paint. Any legitimate peer reviewer who bothered to read just the abstract would’ve tossed the paper in the garbage (or maybe called the police).

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Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Kiren Shoman, the editorial director for SAGE Publishing, discusses what SAGE has learned from the higher ed sector as it reflects on how the pandemic response has affected teaching and what it expects once the new normal arrives.

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Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

In this Q&A conducted by the LSE Impact blog, social psychologist Sonia Livingstone outlines the ways that the pandemic has transformed the process of promoting a book. She discusses the heightened importance of social media and the opportunities that digital technologies have afforded for reaching new audiences and adapting conventional formats.

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Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’

Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’

Alvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and who is […]

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What’s Wrong with Peer Review?

What’s Wrong with Peer Review?

Academic capitalism exhibit a lack of transparency and accountability where it truly matters. Peer review and the ways in which journals often handle peer reviews are one key site of such intransparency and unaccountability.

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