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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Bibliography of Transdisciplinarity Literature 2012
Our friends at td-net have just released a valuable resource: A Tour d’Horizon of Literature Related to Transdisciplinarity Published in 2012 The number of publications in the field of inter- and transdisciplinary research has been steadily growing during recent years … Continue reading
Hirschman on creativity
Nice Albert O. Hirschman quote brought to us by Malcolm Gladwell at the New Yorker: …The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it … Continue reading
Academic Sustainability
The academy may be filled with leftists–so we are told–but it has yet to apply its Marxist interpretive skills to its own situation. For the academy suffers from epistemic overproduction. We can expect a crash. This overproduction shows itself both … Continue reading
Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?
An interesting summary of presentations on altmetrics, including a set of interesting questions: BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?.
Limiting Knowledge Production
What? Now why would anyone want to do that? The field of sustainability studies can be seen as being about two things: limits and technology. We are concerned about sustainability because we fear that we are approaching (or have already … Continue reading
BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology
Interesting post and slides from Amber at Warwick — a philosopher-information-technologist. BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. I think there’s something right about the notion that this is “cool social scholarship.” But is it too … Continue reading
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences.
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, CSID Publications, Field Philosophy, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Libraries, Metrics, Peer Review, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
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New Peer Review Pilot at NSF: Applicants as Reviewers? | CHS Sponsored Programs
For this pilot project, instead of a traditional review panel, all principal investigators submitting proposals to the Sensors and Sensing Systems (SSS) will be required to review seven competing proposals! The program officer will then compile the final rankings and … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education | Impact of Social Sciences
McGettigan’s new book is specifically about the situation in the United Kingdom, but I think it offers critiques that would elucidate aspects of the American system as well. McGettigan’s argument is that this market talk drives a wider discourse of … Continue reading
Alternative alternative metric
Maybe more ways our 56 Indicators can be used to assist in a different approach to success: not only in Academia but the general day to day of living a measured life and working in a measurable way. Finding new … Continue reading
Book Review: Peer Review, Research Integrity, and the Governance of Science: Practice, Theory, and Current Discussions | LSE Review of Books
The fact that this scholarly book about fairness and integrity in research is edited by (mostly) U.S. scholars but published by a Chinese press should not mislead readers into believing that this is a boastful text seeking to bestow upon … Continue reading