💥New: Liang Hu, Win-bin Huang and Yi Bu find more interdisciplinary research to have greater relevance and be more heavily cited in policy documents. #ResearchImpact#Interdisciplinaritywp.me/p4m9em-dfF
Drawing on a study of COVID-19 research papers, Liang Hu, Win-bin Huang and Yi Bu find more interdisciplinary research to have greater relevance and be more heavily cited in policy documents. Inter…
💥New: Walking in policymakers’ shoes - Using role-play to foster better research/policy relations ✍️Lucile Maertens, Audrey Alejandro and Zoé Cheli (@pspolisci.bsky.social)
Researchers and policymakers have long been seen as two communities, which although dealing with similar issues, have distinct institutional norms and bounded rationalities. Lucile Maertens, Audrey…
💥New: If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up 👩💻Simone Ragavooloo #PeerReviewWeek#PeerReview#ScholComm
Studies have increasingly shown the widespread use of generative AI in research publications. Faced with the consequent uptick in the number of publications, Simone Ragavooloo argues that editors a…
💥New: Jonathan Grant and Tom Kennie explore the role of third space professionals, those who work between academia and various fields of practice, and suggest how universities can better support their careers #HigherEducationwp.me/p4m9em-dej
Jonathan Grant and Tom Kennie explore the role of third space professionals, those who work between academia and various fields of practice, and suggest how universities can better support their ca…
🗣️"the golden standard of publishing and reviewing today, are in fact social and relatively late constructions." #PeerReview#PeerReviewWeek
Drawing on research from their recently published and open access history of publishing at the Royal Society, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, discusses how a long view of scientific publication can help us b…
💥New: Adrian Barnett suggests how embracing doubt could improve peer review processes. #PeerReviewWeek#ScholComm#AcademicSkywp.me/p4m9em-ddb
Peer review decisions are definitive, and depending on the style of peer review practiced at a journal, reviewers can usually make one of three recommendations: accept, reject, revise and resubmit.…
💥New: Thomas Robinson highlights three ways in which AI is reshaping research across the social sciences and how it raises questions around the reflexivity of social science outputs in a world where AI is increasingly mainstream. #SocialScience#ResearchMethods#AcademicSkywp.me/p4m9em-dev
Drawing on discussions from a recent workshop hosted by the Department of Methodology at LSE, Thomas Robinson highlights three ways in which AI is reshaping research across the social sciences and …
I've dug into the article this is based on and there's lots of lovely open data - lists of the journals in UlrichsWeb grouped by region, deduplicated, categorised by language and broad subject, then matched to Scopus and Web of Science titles. data.mendeley.com/datasets/cvx...
And why citation indexes make research *assessment* unequal also. Great data from David Mills and Toluwase Asubiaro.
💥New: Citation indexes make research more unequal ✍️David Mills & Toluwase Asubiaro #Citations #ScholComm
When Garfield first launched his Science Citation Index in 1965, many criticised its unequal geographical coverage of the world’s scientific literature. Almost 60 years later, the problem has not g…
Disappointing to hear that @ukandeu.bsky.social@anandmenon.bsky.social@jillongovt.bsky.social#SocialScience#PolSci#AcademicSky
Reflecting on seven years of UK in a Changing Europe, Anand Menon and Jill Rutter discuss how the project has brought social science insights into the mainstream of a polarised public debate. Highl…