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To celebrate the launch of C4DISC’s Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, Damita Snow and Jocelyn Dawson sat down with Laura Martin and Megan Seyler to share why they are excited about this toolkit and what they hope it will achieve. The post Guest Post — Enabling your Organization to be Antiracist appeared first on The Scholarly…

Article Attention Scores for papers don't seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible. The post Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

A pilot series of community peer review events from four organizations (AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview) have been developed to enable equitable practices of research evaluation and review. The post Guest Post — Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review in Africa appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Are you a word "nerd"? Do you know who coined the word "nerd"? The post From “Pandemonium” to “Meme”: Words Invented by Authors appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

When do new approaches to research communication become an end unto themselves? How much more work can we pile on researchers? Is more information always better than less? The post The Curse of More, or, Does Anybody Have Any Time Left to Do Research? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Octopus is a new sharing platform that hopes to disrupt research culture for the better. An interview with founder Dr. Alexandra Freeman. The post “Positively Disrupt(ing) Research Culture for the Better”: An Interview with Alexandra Freeman of Octopus appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

As organizations start to schedule the return to the physical office for most employees, careful planning is essential. Inspired by the advice to "be intentional" about what we want back-to-office life to look like, Angela Cochran explores questions on how to serve the needs of staff in the office and those remaining at home. The…

In today's post, Angela Cochran is revisiting the topic of balancing reviewer needs and author expectations. Recent data from one flagship journal showed significant overlap in the reviewer pool within top journals in the field, emphasizing the need to double-down on efforts to diversify. The post Revisiting: Balancing Author Satisfaction with Reviewer Needs appeared first…

We're going on Summer Break. Here's Prince to tide you over. The post We’re Taking a (Hot) Summer Break appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Looking back at Richard Poynder's in-depth analysis of the state of open access. What's changed since then? The post Revisiting — The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.