Adrian Furnham on peer review’s swings and roundabouts
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
Boosting your publication metrics need not come at the expense of your integrity if you bear in mind these 10 tips, says Adrian Furnham
The nectar of power and prestige is sweet, but modern editors have to swallow an embittering volume of hard graft, too, says Adrian Furnham
Academia is often depicted as a calling, but for those who heed it, the joy of doing something they love is often crushed by heavy teaching and admin loads and an unceasing pressure to make a ‘...
Mechanisms to determine university leaders’ salaries are opaque and unreliable. We need more meaningful metrics, says Adrian Furnham
Prize committees should re-examine nominees with below-average scientometric scores, says Adrian Furnham
Few academics abused the autonomy they used to have – and fewer still complained about their salary, says Adrian Furnham
Members lack expertise and groupthink is a constant peril. Better to entrust scrutiny to expert lawyers and ethicists, says Adrian Furnham
Accurate reporting of results is important, but meaning is rarely distorted by orthographic or grammatical slips, says Adrian Furnham
The Novak Djokovic affair underlines the need to teach that openness to error is the baseline of knowledge, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham
The escalating pressures of university life are resulting in all manner of exotic new psychological disorders. Adrian Furnham opens his casebook
The crisis in peer reviewing can be overcome if journals and universities do more to incentivise it, say Dirk Lindebaum and Peter Jordan
As refereeing requests multiply, the demands on willing academics’ time are becoming unsustainable, says Adrian Furnham
But journals’ open access fees are suddenly increasing researchers’ need for funding, says Adrian Furnham
Opacity and double standards are infuriating, but the blessings of an academic career are present at all ranks, says Adrian Furnham