Publication Concerns

How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career
Career
May 8, 2019

How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career

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What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?
Communication
April 12, 2019

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

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DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research
Higher Education Reform
March 6, 2019

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

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Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout
Communication
February 6, 2019

Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout

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How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

Publishing an article in a reputed academic journal is no mean feat. From the initial grant proposal, through to writing the paper, formatting it to meet journal guidelines and then waiting for peer review to be complete, a huge amount of time and work is required. And that’s assuming you’re accepted first time! Here’s how we counsel people about this at SAGE.

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Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

Plan S represents an exciting example of the scholarly community mobilizing to create funding requirements that could lead to an open access future. However, the plan has also raised a number of legitimate concerns, not least the absence of any incentive for publishers to lower journal costs. Brian Cody suggests how simple adjustments to the proposed article processing charge cap could encourage publishers to reduce costs and so free up funds for other open access projects.

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Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Is scholarship that doesn’t appear in the Social Science Citation Index — a commercial index of ‘internationally leading’ journals in the social sciences, compiled by Clarivate Analytics — worthless? Before you say ‘Of course not,’ know that some universities essentially are saying yes.

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How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

Most early career researchers receive little to no training on how to peer review, and it’s not always easy to find consistent or helpful guidance. Here, during Peer Review Week, Katrina Newitt offers some helpful advice on how to get started.

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How Do I Get Published? Five Tips to Successfully Publish an Academic Paper

How Do I Get Published? Five Tips to Successfully Publish an Academic Paper

Standards are high and getting an academic article published is not easy, but there are certain things you can do to improve your success rate. A member of the SAGE Journals Author Relations team — SAGE is the parent of Social Science Space — offers five tips on the smartest way to navigate these challenges.

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The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

How can the impact of an academic article be measured? It seems that everyone wants to find an answer to this question – from the researcher and author teams that create research articles, to the editors and peer reviewers who curate them, to the societies and publishers who ensure that the articles are released to the world.

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Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. But when reviews misrepresent previous studies or suggest there’s a paucity of information when there isn’t, doesn’t,this degrade the knowledge base? Richard P. Phelps argues that, given the difficulty of verifying an author’s claims during peer review, it is best that journals drop the requirement for a literature review in scholarly articles.

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Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

In the latest iteration of a survey series she’s been running for four decades, Carol Tenopir aims to assess the value of access to scholarly journals by examining patterns of use and reading. Your input is sought.

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