Lastly, we need to consider how the debate around academic blogging fits into debates around
academic publishing more broadly.
Not exact matches
A study
published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance,
academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being
more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.
A professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, he's
published more than 250
academic papers and in 2014 received a $ 750,000 Google Award for an artificial intelligence project.
Private money going to startups
more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an
academic paper
published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.
Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned
more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting
more academics to
publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.
And keep your eyes open: I'll be
publishing another list of fiction favourites to empower women, a list for empowering young girls, and another one for the
more scholarly / theological /
academic folks among us in the next week or two!
He wrote to prelates about the matter, and «I
published my theses, inviting learned men and them alone to discuss them with me... By a miracle which astounded me
more than anyone, these theses were spread through almost the entire world», even though, being
academic theses, the text was dense and summary.
The Australian Beverages Council, representing the local energy drinks industry, has responded to research
published in the journal
Academic Pediatrics from the Yale School of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a
more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school children.
More than 40 heads of charities and leading
academics specialising in family care today
publish an unprecedented call on the Government to transform support for separated families.
I think International Relations as an
academic subject is becoming
more obscure and that's a trend that probably comes from the pressure to
publish as you suggest.
A new study in SLEEP,
published by Oxford University Press, indicates that delaying school start times results in students getting
more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for
academic success is common.
Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women authors listed on
more than 10 million
academic papers in nearly 5,000
academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories,
published from 2002 to 2016.
BN: Results that are novel are
more likely to be
published, and the primary currency of an
academic scientist is a publication — a good publication record in prestigious journals helps you get a good
academic job, funding and awards.
In an analysis
published on December 7 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from Rutgers University, Harvard University, Yale University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH and other
academic centers, industry and public health agencies say new diagnostic methods offer a better chance for
more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria.
Researchers at universities, on the other hand, live or die by their publication record, Bourgeois explains, so «you'd expect that the
academic trials would generate
more published studies, and that's what we saw.»
He has
published 100
academic papers and has led
more than 25 research expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic.
AMSTERDAM — For
more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between
academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to
publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing
more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for
academic positions (teaching, grant writing,
publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
A paper
published this year in JAMA Internal Medicine found that male
academic physicians get an average of 8 percent
more than females, regardless of specialty, years of experience or productivity, which translates to an average salary bump of about $ 20,000, although the extent of the disparity varies widely.
More were soon discovered, and 122 nonsense conference papers were ultimately retracted by Springer, the
academic publishing giant based in Heidelberg, Germany, and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, based in New York City.
Scientists may find
more restrictions on
publishing their results than in the
academic or commercial worlds.
Most critically, it doesn't adequately address the reuse rights needed for the public to do
more than simply read individual articles,» says Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly
Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
Children who experience family and environmental stressors, and traumatic experiences, such as poverty, mental illness and exposure to violence, are
more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research by investigators at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), titled «Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity,»
published in
Academic Pediatrics.
Prof. Patrinos has
more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics,
published by
Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.
More usually,
academic scientists are successful and pleased if they can
publish 1 - 4 papers / year;
publishing 1 paper / month must be considered to be outstanding!
The authors reached these conclusions after analyzing
more than 170
academic papers, and
published their results in the journal Psychological Bulletin.
There are
more than 200 peer - reviewed journal articles which have been
published, examining the Character Strengths from diverse angles, such as the strengths most strongly correlated with student engagement,
academic achievement, life satisfaction and physical activity.
The site
publishes up - to - date school data and student reviews on
more than a dozen categories, from
academics to social life.
An interview
published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on
academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do
more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.
Support Slipping for Common Core, Especially Among Teachers, Poll Finds Education Week, 8/19/14 The poll of 5,000 adults, conducted this past spring by Education Next, a journal
published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution, shows that
more than two - thirds of adults support the idea of shared
academic standards.
While she has
published extensively in scholarly journals, her new book reads
more like a self - help volume than an
academic one.
Research had been
published in
academic journals and summarized in
more popular outlets like Kappan and the Washington Post.
He has received
more than $ 13 million in research funding and
published in top
academic journals in multiple fields and disciplines, including economics, sociology, education, and public policy.
The Collaborative for
Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
published both a program review of 80 social - emotional learning programs and
more recent meta - analysis of 213 such programs.
It can also help students make significant gains in
academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of
more than 200 studies
published in the journal Child Development.
A Mercury News investigation
published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of
academic achievement» but has won
more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.
But, the government is expected to release a consultation at the start of the next
academic year, in September, where
more details will be released, and then sample materials will be
published in December.
A new report, issued today by global
publishing adviser Ixxus, aims to help
academic publishers organize their move to a
more digitally focused landscape.
And, if I hear of one
more self -
published person, with no
academic or
publishing credits whatsoever, who has no excuse whatsoever for presuming to give anyone advice, who has set up a fake seminar where they're offering «advice for writers,» (and, of course, mentioning their «book» every five seconds) I'm going to vomit.
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Unfortunately, the world of
academic publishing is even
more notoriously difficult to break into than the world of trade
publishing.
There's also the newly formed Author's Alliance, although their noble cause of furthering open access is
more appropriate for non-fiction authors of
academic publishing.
CN Times Books is the New York City - based U.S. subsidiary of Beijing MediaTime Book Co. LTD, a leading Chinese trade publisher that
publishes more than 600 fiction and nonfiction titles per year, including books for children and titles of scholarly and
academic interest.
He has been
publishing academic books and papers about the Pirahã (pronounced pee - da - HAN) for
more than twenty - five years, but his work remained relatively obscure until early in 2005, when he posted on his Web site an article titled «Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã», which was
published that fall in the journal Cultural Anthropology.
As
academic careers rely on
publishing for advancement, I foresee many
more scholars like myself (who may or may not be currently lecturing at a college or university) turning to independent
publishing.
Or perhaps not so oddly since
academics, tenured professors included, are under
more pressure than even indie authors to
publish (master's theses, dissertations, articles, books) on a regular basis.
The owner of Speculations Editing Services and Robisch Editorial Services (the
academic branch of my business), I am a
published author and independent editor with
more than 20 years of experience in the
publishing industry and
more than 15 years of experience as a full - time, independent editor.
What has happened in the wake of this frustration at
academic publishing is a number of companies have grown to meet this need for the individual consumer, often bypassing the school or institution altogether, and often creating a much
more dynamic product for the learning consumer.
To do so, young people need to know about
publishing, and the wide range of jobs on offer, and just how much the term «
publishing» represents: consumer,
academic, professional, educational, children's, apps and e-books and much
more.