Publication Concerns

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
Communication
June 2, 2021

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

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Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard
Higher Education Reform
April 12, 2021

Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard

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NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research
Research
February 19, 2021

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

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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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In Defense of the Edited Collection

In Defense of the Edited Collection

Edited collections, are one of the most disparaged forms of academic writing, often written off as low quality, or a poor career choice. In contrast, Peter Webster argues for the unique benefit of edited collections, as a creative form of collective academic endeavor that does not sit easily within an academy that is averse to creative risk.

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Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academic research by making it more broadly and easily accessible. Reporting on a natural experiment on the citation impact of health research that is published in both open access and subscription journals, Chris Carroll and Andy Tattersall, suggests that subscription journals still play an important role in making research discoverable and useful and thus still have a role to play even in open publication strategies.

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John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics

John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics

“We felt it’s important to dissociate the specific paper from making policy recommendations, because this is taking things to a different level. Now, if you ask my opinion about whether it does have policy recommendations or implications separate from the study, I think what it says is that this is a very common infection, and very often it is asymptomatic, so it goes below the radar screen. “

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