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As we commemorate the "Ethics Awareness Month," I thought it best to reflect on COVID-19 and highlight some of the ethical challenges that might need attention. With its origins in China, the virus has spread to 170 countries and territories, leaving more than 8,000 dead. It has been declared a public health emergency of international concern and there are no signs of a cure at the moment.
Read MoreAs a PhD candidate, conference attendance is a daunting rite of passage and choosing the right presentation mode can be tricky. Many opt for poster presentations as their first conference experience, but are they really worth it?
Read MoreThe Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University and SAGE Publishing now are accepting nominations for the 2020 SAGE-CASBS Award.
Read MoreWorld Cancer Day is a day to inspire change, mobilize people to take action, and create a world without cancer. This includes an emphasis on personal commitment and the power of individual action. Social media is one such avenue to achieve this.
Read MoreAs a researcher, especially as part of a community here at the University of Sussex, I know from experience and from conversations with fellow researchers that one of the biggest challenges we face is not one that is external but one that comes from within: Imposter Syndrome.
Read MoreVascular Medicine journal (Impact Factor: 2.786) enters its 25th year of publication with a series of changes to rejuvenate its leadership team including expansion of the Vascular Medicine Editorial Board to include 11 new members (88 total) and provide expanded multispecialty perspective and more diversified experience in vascular medicine research.
Read MoreInterdisciplinarity is often applied in subjects where the traditional disciplinary structure of research institutions is not the most complete way to answer their questions – for example, women’s studies or ethnic studies. It can also be applied to complex subjects that can only be understood by combining the perspectives of two or more fields – think of globalization issues or climate change.
Read MoreLike most developing countries, due to historical and economic reasons, the development of mental health services in China, especially in rural areas, has lagged behind other medical disciplines.
Read MoreThe Research Hive is a space dedicated to researchers in the University of Sussex Library. SAGE Publishing have kindly made a gift to support the Research Hive and the Library’s innovative work in engaging with the research community at Sussex. Each year three doctoral researchers are appointed as Research Hive Scholars to develop a programme of support activities and events for researchers.
Read MoreSAGE’s Therapeutic Advances series of clinical journals was launched in 2008, with the aim of providing clinicians and medical researchers a platform to publish their findings in a free-to-read format, thereby offering universal access to the latest information in the field.
Read MoreAdvance: a SAGE preprints community celebrated its one year anniversary on August 31st. Since its launch, Advance has accumulated over 300 preprints, featuring research all across the humanities and social sciences. Preprints, as you may know, are early versions of a scholarly paper that haven’t been peer-reviewed. In honor of this special occasion, we would like to highlight three papers of interest that have been posted on SAGE’s own preprint server.
Read MoreCode has become an integral part of the scientific publishing process, but what happens to it once an article is published? The answer is often “not much.” This is a problem for reproducibility: it can be impossible to replicate a study if you can’t run it in the same way as the original.
Read MoreNow in its fifth year, Peer Review Week is an annual event that showcases the essential role that reviewers play in the curation and dissemination of academic research. Each year has a theme and this year’s is “Quality in Peer Review”. With research output hitting an all-time high in 2018 the demand on reviewers is more significant than ever. It is therefore vital that the right training, recognition and rewards are in place to ensure that meaningful and helpful peer reviews can be shared with authors.
Read MoreAugust 31st marks the one year anniversary of Advance: a SAGE preprints community and, since the day we launched, preprints have continued to see tremendous growth across the scholarly community. Growth, not just in sheer volume of posted preprints, but also in the understanding of the benefits preprints can have in the scholarly community.
Read MoreIn October 2017, Professor James Richardson delivered a momentous announcement at the 11th annual Oswestry Cartilage Symposium. After more than 20 years of trials and research, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) finally approved chondrocyte cell therapy for the treatment of articular cartilage defects. This historic decision is anticipated to have a profound impact on the cartilage repair field in the UK and globally.
Read MoreIt’s Impact Factor season! The time of year that publishers, editors, and societies anticipate with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. The Impact Factor (IF), a metric for measuring the impact of a journal’s articles, is arguably the most well recognized measure for comparing journals and evaluating their relative importance in their given field.
Read MoreThe numbers of female engineers have increased over the years but not at the rate that other professions have seen. For example, new medical school and law school admissions are much more evenly balanced by male/female admissions compared to most of engineering, which hovers around 10-15% female enrollment.
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