Why We Should Not Ignore Interdisciplinarity's Critics
Amidst the push from universities and funding agencies for increased interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity has also been the subject of a number of critiques in recent years.
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It's Time to Incentivise the Behaviours That Are Good for Research and Researchers
It's Time to Incentivise the Behaviours That Are Good for Research and Researchers
The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
We Have the Technology to Save Peer Review – Now It Is up to Our Communities to Implement It
We Have the Technology to Save Peer Review – Now It Is up to Our Communities to Implement It
An introspective look at peer review, one we hope will be useful for future discussions on the topic.
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
What Do the 2014 REF Results Tell Us About the Relationship Between Excellent Research and Societal Impact
What Do the 2014 REF Results Tell Us About the Relationship Between Excellent Research and Societal Impact
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.
Understanding Why Research Evidence Does or Doesn't Make It into Policy
Understanding Why Research Evidence Does or Doesn't Make It into Policy
Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.
"Writing Sprints" Can Facilitate Collaboration and Encourage New Ways of Thinking About Academic Writing
"Writing Sprints" Can Facilitate Collaboration and Encourage New Ways of Thinking About Academic Writing
A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
ResearchGate and similar services represent a “gamification” of research, drawing on features usually associated with online games, like rewards, rankings and levels.
Artificial Intelligence Can Expedite Scientific Communication and Eradicate Bias From the Publishing Process
Artificial Intelligence Can Expedite Scientific Communication and Eradicate Bias From the Publishing Process
Although automated publishing would allow researchers to share their findings faster, while also removing human bias, there are obvious ethical dilemmas related to this dehumanisation of the process.
Why Has Submitting a Manuscript to a Journal Become So Difficult?
A call to simplify an overly complicated process
It's Time for a European Open Access Platform
Making the case for a European Open Access Platform.
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.
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