Academia - Topics

Academic citations: why they matter and how to get them right Open access vs paywalled research papers: who gets to know? The leaky pipeline from PhD to tenured professor Citing your sources in a video essay actually matters Preprints made science faster and made it easier to spread results nobody has checked Paper mills and citation cartels: fraud as an organized academic industry Peer review: who reviews the reviewers Podcasts and YouTube now move knowledge to the public faster than journals ever did — with far less review Open access won the argument and lost the business model — so who pays for diamond OA now? A press release travels much further than the paper it misrepresents Retraction Watch files more pulled papers than most people would guess Publish or perish — does the incentive system produce worse science Why so few women reach full professor in psychology departments Why citation tracking misses scholarship published in languages other than English Economic journals take two years to reject a paper Why grant reports never say a discovery was serendipitous Referee reports are the unpaid labor that holds the discipline together What actually separates film criticism from academic film studies? Annual association meetings are a hiring fair with a conference attached How many PhDs ever land the professor job they trained a decade for Why do academics write so badly — and is it really on purpose Chasing prestige postdocs vs having a life: the gamble of the academic track Predatory open access journals and how smart researchers keep falling for them Do male scientists get more invited talks and keynote slots? What the AEA job market does to a PhD's research agenda Why interdisciplinary hiring panels default to the home discipline Publishing a chapter in an edited volume when the tenure file is being read How DOI and ORCID identifiers changed the compiling of author bibliographies Why do men still hold most senior professorships in physics? Where economists actually work: central banks and consultancies outnumber academia Why central bank economists and academic economists talk past each other Why do some scholars call patriarchy too blunt a concept?