Book reviews are important inputs into a wider system of academic publishing upon which the academic profession is symbiotically dependent, and in a previous career advice column I argued that all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University. In an earlier era, say 1960, faculty at most universities ...

Key Takeaways ・Nature Reviews Psychology has introduced citation guidelines encouraging authors to diversify their citations by considering the backgrounds of researchers, including gender, race, and ...

Academic journals play an important role in knowledge dissemination. No one knows how many journals there actually are, but several estimates point to around 30,000, with close to 2 million articles ...

T he academic book review seems like a straightforward task. A journal editor sends you a book closely related to your expertise, offering an excuse to dig in and think about the shape of your field.

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

Absolutely. It gives them access to important new ideas much earlier than popular books. But will they do it? Probably not. Leaders usually don't have the time to battle with the inaccessible prose of ...

Journals focused on ferns, clams, or coral reefs had proportionally more of their articles cited by the federal government when protecting species than more prominent, higher-impact journals. The ...

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