Category Archives: Peer Review

Academics don’t let themselves be free – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

@alicebell has something to say to us academics: Fellow academics, if you really want to stand up for your special forms of freedoms you need to recognise the role you already play in the systems that curtail them and reflect … Continue reading

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Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

A very interesting piece written on preprints here: Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network. Preprints are essentially working papers that are ‘published’ in order to solicit feedback prior to … Continue reading

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Re-engineering Ethics, Kelli Barr and Wenlong Lu « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

CSID fellows Kelli Barr and Wenlong Lu just published a thoughtful piece at the Social Epistemology Review & Reply Collective. They consider a recent professional meeting that they attended and the implications of having a diverse crowd of trained experts … Continue reading

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Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch

Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading

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Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences

Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading

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Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk

CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, primarily at universities and colleges, to support faculty and staff in coordinating, … Continue reading

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An unusual take on the Research Excellence Framework – HERAVALUE

An unusual take on the Research Excellence Framework – HERAVALUE.

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“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” webinar: Notes from the not-so-underground philosopher

My initial reaction is that the single-day webinar in which I presented on Tuesday (and in which I was the only humanist – !) was a success. Excepting some minor and very intermittent technical difficulties with sound and visual, the presenters … Continue reading

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“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” — Research Trends Webinar

Just finished listening to this webinar, in which CSID’s own Kelli Barr participated as a presenter. One of the most interesting aspects of the webinar was the discussion of the use of new ways for the individual researcher to extend … Continue reading

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Is NSF’s ‘Product’ Category a Finished Product? – Science Careers

Science Careers weighs in on NSF’s recent changes to the Grant Proposal Guide: Is NSF’s ‘Product’ Category a Finished Product? – Science Careers – Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers. Interesting take on what counts as a ‘product’ … Continue reading

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Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education

I left a comment* about one point I take issue with; but this is a good article, with lots of good advice. Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education. * Just … Continue reading

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Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife

The paper is well worth reading for those interested in scholarly communications. The journal, eLife, is also worth checking out. Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife.

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From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop

Open Access, for some at least, goes hand in hand with a move towards Open Evaluation. From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop.

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Broader Impacts, Take Two

Some interesting quotes about changes to NSF’s Merit Review Criteria in this article Chemical and Engineering News (via the Penn research office). C&ENewsDec10.pdf (application/pdf Object). If you’re interested in the history behind these changes, see “Reassessing the Science-Society Relation” here. … Continue reading

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Bieberians at the Gate? | Inside Higher Ed

Essay on the idea that non-philosophers should judge philosophers | Inside Higher Ed. Comments on this piece are most welcome!

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Is visual content separable from the implied message?

As an example of the interface of aesthetics, visual content in this case, and ethics, the implied message and its implications, I would rate this as good design (intellectual) merit, but poor ethical and social merit (impact)… … which, in … Continue reading

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America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com

There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement.  It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, … Continue reading

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ESRC success rates by discipline: what on earth is going on? | Impact of Social Sciences

Adam Golberg analyzes success rates for various disciplines applying for grants from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): ESRC success rates by discipline: what on earth is going on? | Impact of Social Sciences. Not surprisingly, some disciplines … Continue reading

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Why You Should Reject the “Rejection Improves Impact” Meme

Interesting analysis — and indictment of uncritical reading — of the idea that rejection improves citation rates by @caseybergman: Why You Should Reject the “Rejection Improves Impact” Meme « I wish you’d made me angry earlier.

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The Venue Poll: Where should philosophers publish?

I think following this blog might give us some real insight into the state of philosophy today: The Venue Poll.

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Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity – The Philosophers’ Cocoon

Andreas Wolkenstein asks whether philosophers have anything special to contribute to interdisciplinarity: Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity – The Philosophers’ Cocoon.

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Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe | Impact of Social Sciences

Melonie Fullick offers a nice run-down of the recent discussion of the issue of live tweeting at academic conferences: Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe | Impact of Social Sciences. One of the more interesting points … Continue reading

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Papers initially rejected but eventually published cited more — but why?

James Evans, a participant in our NSF workshop on transformative research, has some interesting comments in this article. The Benefits of Rejection – The Scientist Magazine®. The article itself discusses a study of papers that are published after having been … Continue reading

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A ProfHacker TweetChat with Anvil Academic: Presenting Digital Work for Promotion and Tenure – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education

A discussion of bringing traditional academic rigor to digital media via peer review: A ProfHacker TweetChat with Anvil Academic: Presenting Digital Work for Promotion and Tenure – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. I understand the idea, and it’s … Continue reading

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Will the REF disadvantage interdisciplinary research? The inadvertent effects of journal rankings | Impact of Social Sciences

Ismael Rafols uncovers bias against interdisciplinary research and programs. Will the REF disadvantage interdisciplinary research? The inadvertent effects of journal rankings | Impact of Social Sciences.

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