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A new star has been born on the academic Nordic journal scene: the Journal of Digital Social Research, launched last year. We talked to the editor-in-chief Simon Lindgren from Umeå University.
Cross-sectoral mobility funding requires recipients to change their environment and often some aspects of their research. There is a need to understand the impact on the researchers' experiences as knowledge producers within such programs, as part of the broader potential and significance of cross-sectoral mobility funding.
This article explores the current literature on ‘research impact’ in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
The author argues that for the humanities to successfully adopt digital technologies, they need to develop an independent open humanities discourse.
OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.
Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.
Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade.
There have been big declines in the proportion of humanities and social science papers published in Norwegian, conference told
When social scientists think about big data, they often think in terms of quantitative number crunching. However, the growing availability of ‘big’ qualitative datasets presents new opportunities for qualitative research.
As the publishing arm of the University of California system, UC Press supports the UC libraries in their cancellation of the Elsevier "big deal" package. As small to medium-sized publishers of largely humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals, university presses (including UC Press) have had to compete for diminishing library resources to support our publishing programs.
The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered.
Another set of fake papers takes aim at social science’s nether regions.
Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies.
Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.
In today’s knowledge economy, the practical value of a STEM degree is obvious. Yet our future depends on graduates who are steeped in the humanities and social sciences.
Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.
Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."
A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Why Greek and Latin medical terminology is better off dead.
He has long been a thorn in scientists’ sides. Today, Latour wants to help rebuild trust in science.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit.
Linguists, anthropologists and political scientists take to Capitol Hill to defend their research.
Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
Evidence from Web of Science showing that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, antibiotic resistance, and other global challenges pose major collective action problems: A group benefits from a certain action, but no individual has sufficient incentive to act alone.
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?
