Academic Life and Culture

 

Disclosing and Managing Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest in Scientific Publications

In the last decade, there has been increased recognition of the importance of disclosing and managing non-financial conflicts of interests to safeguard the objectivity, integrity, and trustworthiness of scientific research. While funding agencies and …

Medical Product Industry Ties to Patient Advocacy Organizations’ Executive Leadership

Patient advocacy organizations (PAOs) advance patient interests through promotion of disease awareness, engagement with policymakers, and partnership with medical product manufacturers in research and development.1 However, there are concerns that, …

The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018–2020): an observational study

Background: Scientists are increasingly concerned with making their work easy to verify and build upon. Associated practices include sharing data, materials, and analytic scripts, and preregistering protocols. This shift towards increased …

The trustworthiness of the cumulative knowledge in industrial/organizational psychology: The current state of affairs and a path forward

The goal of industrial/organizational (IO) psychology, is to build and organize trustworthy knowledge about people-related phenomena in the workplace. Unfortunately, as with other scientific disciplines, our discipline may be experiencing a “crisis …

Adopting Open Educational Resources as an Equity Strategy

Social determinants of learning (SDOL) impact students’ abilities to successfully complete their courses. An economic barrier for vulnerable students is the skyrocketing cost of textbooks. An innovative strategy to promote equity in educational …

Reimagining peer review: the emergence of peer community in registered reports system

The traditional peer review process in medicine faces a crisis marked by publication delays, potential bias, and a lack of transparency. These issues hinder scientific progress and undermine the credibility of published medical findings, which inform …

Want to speed up scientific progress? First understand how science policy works

Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide.

Open Educational Resources: Equitable and Affordable Nursing Education

This research report describes findings from a study conducted to learn students’ experiences using open educational resources (OER) in an online nursing research course. Twenty-three students participated in a pilot study in which traditional …

Promotion & Tenure: Aligning incentives with institutional values and open science

This repository provides resources for faculty and academic units to re-imagine faculty rewards and incentives, and in particular how faculty are evaluated for promotion and tenure, with the goal of maximizing inclusivity in science by changing how …

Changing the Culture of Peer Review for a More Inclusive and Equitable Psychological Science

Peer review is a core component of scientific progression. Although peer review ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what types of research are published and cited, and who wants to (and is able to) advance in …
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