Review papers play a significant role in curating the scholarly record. Drawing on a study of close to six million research articles, Peter McMahan, shows how review papers not only focus and shift attention onto particular papers, but also serve to shape entire research domains by linking them together and outlining core concepts. As such, the constitutive role of review papers and those who write them warrant further attention
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Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describ...
In a recent Impact Blog post, Jørgen Carling outlined the reasons why he feels the PhD by publicatio...
Funding agencies are increasingly seeking to promote more non-linear developmental approaches to res...
The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. It allows authors to summarise previous ...
Last week the Impact Blog featured a post from Richard P. Phelps, in which he proposed that journals...
The outsized importance of publications has meant too many research students focus on featuring pape...
Think of a research journal and you may imagine a well-thumbed notebook replete with insightful entr...
Extensive revising is required by many journals in the social sciences. It is expected that authors ...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
In Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, Whitney Trettien explores how seventeenth...
Research assessment exercises, such as the REF ostensibly serve to evaluate research, but they also ...
Literature reviews are an integral part of the process and communication of scientific research. Whi...
One of the first megajournals, PLOS ONE, has played a significant role in changing scholarly communi...
Drawing on their recent analysis of journals in the field of Higher Education Studies, which shows t...
Today, academics must prepare written proposals describing the research they wish to conduct and sub...
Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describ...
In a recent Impact Blog post, Jørgen Carling outlined the reasons why he feels the PhD by publicatio...
Funding agencies are increasingly seeking to promote more non-linear developmental approaches to res...