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Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words

In today’s post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 6, 2025
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Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting “If We Don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them”

If we don’t know what citations mean, what does it mean when we count them? Revisiting a 2015 (!) post in light of recent developments in citation metrics and impact.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 17, 2022
  • 11 Comments

Revisiting: Why Aren’t There More Women at the Top in Scholarly Publishing?

Alice Meadows revisits a post from 2013 that looked at how the scholarly publishing field fares in terms of the number of women in leadership roles. Nine years later, has anything changed?

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 10, 2022
  • 27 Comments

Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?

Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. Alison Mudditt and Véronique Kiermer take a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.

  • By Véronique Kiermer, Alison Mudditt
  • Sep 21, 2021
  • 17 Comments

Revisiting: Breaking the Silence: the #MeToo Moment in Scholarly Communication

Revisiting Alison Mudditt’s 2018 post on sexual harassment in our community. What has changed in the last three years, and what can we continue to do to eradicate this behavior for the next generation of women.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Sep 1, 2021
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Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Laura Norton and Nicola Nugent of the RSC

Laura Norton and Nicola Nugent of the Royal Society of Chemistry answer Alice Meadows’s questions about the RSC’s Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — What We Can Learn from How Academics and the Public View Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

Susan Spilka analyzes a series of surveys from Emerald Publishing that asked both academics and the general public about the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion to society.

  • By Susan Spilka
  • Nov 4, 2020
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Getting Beyond Bias to Make the Career Impact You Desire: An Interview with Scismic’s Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong

An interview with Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong about their new tool to help reduce bias and increase fit for research careers.

  • By Jasmine Wallace
  • Oct 20, 2020
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Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project

The findings of the Workplace Equity Project’s 2018 survey have recently been published as a peer-reviewed article in Learned Publishing – learn more in this interview with WEP founders Susan Spilka, Simone Taylor, and Jeri Wachter

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 22, 2020
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Connecting by Reading: A Selection of Books on Race and Racism, Part 2

Today’s post includes part 2 of books about race and racism. When we read, we learn about each other and open our minds to other perspectives.

  • By Nadia Dawood, Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Patricia K. Baskin, Kate Lavallee
  • Jun 17, 2020
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It’s What You Know AND Who You Know: AGU Co-Authorship Demographics — An Interview with Brooks Hanson, Jory Lerback, and Paige Wooden 

The AGU recently published new research on diversity and inclusion in co-authorship of journal articles and conference abstracts. Learn more in this interview with Brooks Hanson, Jory Lerback, and Paige Wooden.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 1, 2020
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Guest Post — Report: Gender Diversity in Research is Improving, But We Still Have Work To Do

Bamini Jayabalasingham, Ylann Schemm, and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski present the takeaways of a new report by Elsevier, “The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens”.

  • By Bamini Jayabalasingham, Ylann Schemm, Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski
  • Mar 10, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — From Diversity to Inclusion and Equity: Moving Beyond Good Intentions

We are celebrating International Women’s Day with guest Chef Susan Spilka of the Workplace Equity Project, who recently moderated a well-attended SSP webinar on moving from diversity to inclusion and equity, on which her post is based.

  • By Susan Spilka
  • Mar 8, 2019
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Yes, Women Also Know: Online Resources Identify and Highlight Women Experts

Okay, 2019, it’s gotta be the end of manels (all male panels) and whanels (all white). Online projects provide resources that call attention to the problems of bias, and make locating women experts easy.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jan 8, 2019
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