Global warming deception succeeded because a few scientists and
academic journals became political.
Not exact matches
There's a myth in academia, perpetuated by other unhappy
academics that says you can only be a successful PhD if you
become a tenured professor and continue to publish in
academic journals.
The study, published in the
journal PLOS ONE, explores key challenges that face this burgeoning area of Chinese higher education as the nation pushes to
become an
academic superpower.
The metric - which ranks
journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, usually the preceding two years - has
become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of
academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.
Predatory
journals have
become the scourge of
academic publishing over the last few years.
Since
becoming an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Adukia continues to make sure her findings aren't relegated to
academic journals and conferences.
Help students
become good note takers by teaching them the proper way to keep a field
journal, a lesson crucial across all
academic subjects.
The texts and tasks in the modules
become increasingly sophisticated over time and call for students to present their work publicly through student
journals, course websites, student
academic conferences, and community presentations.
During his
academic time he had a particular interest in high - quality research and research appraisal, enrolling in a Masters degree program in Epidemiology, being involved in veterinary clinical trials of novel drugs to treat cardiac disease, and
becoming cardiology associate editor for both the
Journal of Small Animal Practice and Veterinary Medicine and Science, as well as being a member of the external review board for the
Journal of Veterinary Cardiology.
While the issue has only recently
become acute, it has
become acute because of accumulating failure during the AR5 assessment process, including errors and misrepresentations by IPCC in the assessments sent out for external review; the almost total failure of the
academic climate community to address the discrepancy; gatekeeping by fellow - traveling
journal editors that suppressed criticism of the defects in the limited
academic literature on the topic.
from the article: «the politically charged rhetoric has contaminated
academic climate research and the institutions that support climate research, so that individuals and institutions have
become advocates; scientists with a perspective that is not consistent with the consensus are at best marginalized (difficult to obtain funding and get papers published by «gatekeeping»
journal editors) or at worst ostracized by labels of «denier» or «heretic.
-- the politically charged rhetoric has contaminated
academic climate research and the institutions that support climate research, so that individuals and institutions have
become advocates; scientists with a perspective that is not consistent with the consensus are at best marginalized (difficult to obtain funding and get papers published by «gatekeeping»
journal editors) or at worst ostracized by labels of «denier» or «heretic.»
The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it
became apparent that the biggest growing concern in
academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and
journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.
But when SSRN was acquired last year by
academic journal publisher Elsevier, a sibling company to LexisNexis, some scholars and information professionals
became concerned that SSRN's free access would eventually be locked behind a paywall (even though SSRN said otherwise) or exploited to mine and sell user data.