Gladwell Tackles College Rankings: The Perils of Comprehensive Heterogeneous Systems
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena?
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena?
A new study suggests that reference works can be created cheaply and effectively through only mildly organized collaborations. Have we been missing a critical contribution of peer-review? Does it suggest that post-publication won’t review won’t be very effective?
A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles.
Maligned though it often is, the Big Deal for journals is likely to get bigger, marginalizing the offerings of smaller publishers.
How do you pronounce “@”? How do you read out an email address? These were tough questions in 1994, as this video reveals.
A debate at PSP reveals much, especially after it ends.
Full of experimental biases and important omissions, what can be learned from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) survey of scientists?
A report on book circulation at the Cornell library invites speculation as to how book publishers will have to continue to market their books even after they are sold: aftermarketing.