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The Importance of Being REF-Able: Academic Writing Under Pressure from a Culture of Counting
The Importance of Being REF-Able: Academic Writing Under Pressure from a Culture of Counting
Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.
Interdisciplinary Research May Lead to Increased Visibility but Also Depresses Scholarly Productivity
Interdisciplinary Research May Lead to Increased Visibility but Also Depresses Scholarly Productivity
How does interdisciplinary research influence scholarship and scholarly careers?
Disentangling the Academic Web
What Might Have Been Learnt From Discogs and IMDB
The Research Librarian of the Future: Data Scientist and Co-Investigator
How the research librarian of the future might work, utilising new data science and digital skills to drive more collaborative and open scholarship.
The New Digital Divide Raises Questions About Future Academic Research
Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations.
How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
Suggesting a truer measure of academic impact
Chris Carroll argues that the impact of an academic research paper might be better measured by counting the number of times it is cited within citing publications rather than by simply measuring if it has been cited or not.
The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem
The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem
That Sci-Hub’s activities are illegal is not disputed. However, according to Iván Farías Pelcastre and Flor González Correa the issue at the core of the debate is the current publishing and knowled…
Bias against novelty in science
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles
Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles
The production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Universities stand to benefit in recessions
New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science shows that universities across the world actually benefit during recessions.