Hacking, Cheating etc
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I thought I would share this on Usain Bolt written by a friend:…Continue

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What makes a good Publisher of scholarly work?
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I am working through multiple aspects of academic publishing and trying to select what is holding back academic publishing AND what it has yet to do that one might imagine would be a good idea?Or am…Continue

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Impact Factors & Altmetrics
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So I am trying to work out what motivates different academics to publish in different places.Would you agree that ONE signficant part of this is how good the impact factor is of where they publish?If…Continue

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'why did Homo sapiens allow permanent and intractable systems of inequality to first take root?'
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At the end of Wengrow and Graeber's article “Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality” they ask “why, after millennia of constructing and disassembling…Continue

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