Blogs selected for Week August 6 to August 12, 2018
1. Metadata 2020: a community collaboration to advance metadata for scholarly communications Metadata 2020 is a collaboration of scholarly communications stakeholders working towards richer, connected, reusable, and open metadata for all research outputs. Clare Dean, in her post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, explains what the collaboration’s goals are, what common problems […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 30 to August 5, 2018
1. Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric Funders are increasingly demanding measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. But while the idea of measuring real world impact makes sense, objectively measuring it is not a simple or straightforward process, and it raises some red flags about falling into the […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 23 to July 29, 2018
1. Open science is all very well but how do you make it FAIR in practice? Open science is about increasing the reuse of research, and making sure that publicly funded research is accessible to all. Key to achieving this is adhering to FAIR principles: ensuring the findings and data behind research results are findable, […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 16 to July 22, 2018
1. Hipster Antitrust and Structural Dominance – What Is a Monopoly Now? The term “monopoly” gets thrown around in scholarly publishing with relative ease and abandon. Calling something a monopoly has been misleading in many cases, but the new economy may require a complete rethinking of the anti-competitiveness created by intermediaries at scale, notes Kent […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 9 to July 15, 2018
1. Peer review has some problems – but the science community is working on it Peer review is the central foundation of science. It is a process where scientific results are vetted by academic peers, with publication in a reputable journal qualifying the merits of the work and informing readers of the latest scientific discoveries. […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 2 to July 8, 2018
1. Evidence-informed policymaking: does knowledge brokering work? There is an accepted need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Knowledge brokers, individuals or organisations sympathetic to both research and policymaking cultures and able to mediate between the two, represent one way of doing so. In her post in the LSE Impact of […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week June 25 to July 1, 2018
1. How to compare apples with oranges: using interdisciplinary “exchange rates” to evaluate publications across disciplines Academic research performance is typically assessed on the basis of scientific productivity. While the number of publications may provide an accurate and useful metric of research performance within one discipline, interdisciplinary comparisons of publication counts prove much more problematic. […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week June 18 to June 24, 2018
1. Unhelpful, caustic and slow: the academic community should rethink the way publications are reviewed The current review system for many academic articles is flawed, hindering the publication of excellent, timely research. There is a lack of education for peer reviewers, either during PhD programmes or from journal publishers, and the lack of incentives to […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week June 11 to June 17, 2018
1. Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor Journal growth means you are attracting more manuscripts, more authors, and more attention. But journal growth can have a negative effect on citation performance measures, especially on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). Phil Davis, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, examines how publication timing can affect annual […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week June 4 to June 10, 2018
1. Diary of an app! Will using mobile devices in qualitative research become the norm? The advent of digital technologies, especially apps for mobile devices, has encouraged some to ask whether these could become the new norm for capturing diary-based data for qualitative research. In their post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, […]
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