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Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?  

“Should there be an emoji for everything?” asked journalist Sophie Haigney in a recent New Yorker…


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Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the RPT process

By Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski, Erin McKiernan, and Juan Pablo Alperin – with Alice…


Preprint Research Team

To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system

"Academic life" by uonottingham is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 “For researchers, there is…


Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community

By Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales and Erin McKiernan.  First published on the LSE Impact…


Meet the reverse flip journal: Q&A with Lisa Matthias

Lisa Matthias, ScholCommLab Visiting Scholar and co-author of a new paper on reverse-flip…


Why Research Communication Matters - Q&A with Michelle La

Michelle La at SFU's 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition How can scholars communicate their work…


Stefanie Haustein on the Altmetric Blog

Starting this week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein is publishing a series of guest…


Preliminary Findings from the Review, Promotion, and Tenure Study

Support for the open access movement has grown in recent years, and today more than a quarter…


Preliminary Findings from the Challenges of Capturing Engagement on Facebook for Altmetrics Study

With more than 2.2 billion active users—six times as many as Twitter—Facebook is by far the largest…