We’re back to a two-week sprint rhythm and have some exciting new things in the latest release: Translations: Our collaborators at the Portage Network in Canada helped internationalize the new version of the platform and various others contributed translations of DMPonline … Continue reading →
Academic Publishing, bibliometrics, Citations, commercial email, free, institutional email, metric-wise, metrics, peer review, peer review scam, Scientometrics
Institutional versus commercial email addresses: which one to use in your publications?
Peer review scams – in which reviews were submitted under the names of real researchers but with fake, non-institutional emails administered by those involved – have heightened curiosity about the email addresses used by researchers in their publications. Ronald Rousseau reports on research examining the prevalence of commercial email addresses in scholarly articles, their distribution per country, and whether there […]
Academic Publishing, Elsevier, Elsevier Boycott, fair open access, fair open access principles, Fennia, free, Free Journal Network, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Libraries, MathOA, non-profit publishing, not-for-profit publishing, OA big deal, open access, open science, Springer
Introducing the Free Journal Network – community-controlled open access publishing
Discontent with the scholarly publishing industry continues to grow, as the prevailing subscription model appears increasingly unsustainable and open access big deals, one mooted alternative, unlikely to lead to optimal outcomes either. The Free Journal Network was established earlier this year in order to nurture and promote journals that are free to both authors and readers, and run according to […]
#AcWri, academic writing, cumulative literature review, Featured, free, lit review, literature review, reproducibility, reproducibility crisis, research methods, Richard Phelps
To save the research literature, let’s make literature reviews reproducible
Last week the Impact Blog featured a post from Richard P. Phelps, in which he proposed that journals get rid of their requirement for a literature review. Arnaud Vaganay agrees with much of what Phelps said, literature reviews are erratic and self-serving, but suggests doing away with them altogether is likely to make science less efficient and less credible. Instead, […]
Bing Maps, free, Google maps, Laos, research methods, satellite images, satellite maps, satellite software, survey research, surveys, Thailand
How eyes in the sky can cut survey costs and enable researchers to identify key but hard-to-reach populations
Collecting representative survey data on large populations of people can be a very time-consuming and expensive undertaking. But it doesn’t have to be; Marco J. Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon explain how they have used freely available satellite images to survey hard-to-reach communities in Thailand and Laos. Countries all around the world are thinking about how to tackle the growing problem […]
academia, academic research, academic writing, Book Reviews, creative research, free, methodology, PhD research, research as lived experience, research methodologies, research methods, Writing for Research
Book Review: Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours edited by Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier and Elina Maslo
The collection Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours, edited by Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier and Elina Maslo, is comprised of short essays that offer imaginative detours from conventional academic wisdom to reflect on lived experiences of research. While the volume at times risks emphasising the unhappy aspects of academic life over and above the potential for creativity, […]