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A requirement that research faculty members obtain grants to achieve tenure is, in some cases, patently unethical, argues Scott O. Lilienfeld.
Early career researchers (ECRs) are the largest community of researchers but despite this we know little about their scholarly attitudes and behaviours. Reporting the first-year findings of a longi…
What do you fear most? Ask a normal person and they might say: the dark, a clown attack, or (my personal) spiders with wings. (As a humorous aside, I was once having a philosophical discussion with…
Lulu officials say that Glasstree, its new online publishing platform dedicated to academic and scholarly authors, will provide a suite of online tools and services to distribute works more cost-effectively.
Nice history recap.
Pressure to publish short articles removes details, leaves readers confused.
Today’s guest post is by The Blundering Ecologist, a Ph.D. candidate at a research university in Canada. In addition to research, she is passionate about asking uncomfortable questions and le…
(a guest post from Cameron Neylon, Curtin University) in response to the open citations experiment In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a massive computer is created to give the answer to the ultimate question, of life the universe and everything. After ten million years of computing it gives its answer: ONE: Well? DEEP […]
“We need to change incentives!” Ah, how many times I have heard some variation of that phrase in describing scientific publishing. Wi...
Research evaluation in the sciences has a gender problem and the indicators we use to understand academic impact are faulty.
Employers and parents value it more highly than any other quality. But how does a university set about building prestige?
The recent infight between the world’s largest academic publishing company, Elsevier, and (soon: former) editors of one of their journals over attempts to make the journal open access –…
Recent research about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems
This is a guest post from Daniel Mügge who is an associate professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam and the lead editor of the Review of International Political Economy. In two…
Dalmeet Singh Chawla considers whether unsuspecting academics should be helped by having legitimate papers republished elsewhere
The role of the academic humanist has always been a public one – however mediated through teaching and publication, argues Tim Hitchcock. As central means to participate in public conversatio…