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“Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
Curt Rice, the head of the Board for Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin), recently published an interesting article on his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor....
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ResearchGate? I don’t think so…
If you are interested in professional networking, chances are that you’ve come across articles such as this one or this one, suggesting that all researchers really should create a ResearchGate profile,...
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“Exclusively hiring native speakers is not discrimination” Seriously?
A while ago, I read a post in one of the Facebook groups I visit, claiming that Hiring a Native English Speaker is not Discrimination. In brief, the author claimed that Native English Speaking Teachers...
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How are we encouraging predatory publishers?
Recently, Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning about The International Journal of English Language, Literature &...
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How to assess research: some alternatives for Greece
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about how research assessment in Greece, and perhaps other, similar, contexts, seems to foster predatory publishing. In brief, I wrote that the systems in place seem...
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Non-Native Speakers of English need not apply
A while ago I wrote a post where I argued that the preferential hiring of Native Speaking English Teachers is discriminatory, and having made my case I thought that there would be no reason to revisit...
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Using YouTube to communicate research findings
A frequent, and fair, criticism of academic research is that it is often inaccessible, either because of the way in which it is written, or because it is often locked away behind paywalls. As a result,...
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Revisiting the Target Language Democratisation narrative
Back in the early days of English Language Teaching, teachers were keen to make all learners speak the Queen’s English and viciously suppressed linguistic diversity. Thus, they perpetuated Imperial...
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“I honestly can’t understand what’s so bad about taking a language test!”
“I honestly can’t understand what’s so bad about taking a language test!” This remark, uttered in genuine exasperation, was delivered by a member of the governing board (Επιστημονικό Εποπτικό...
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Recently Read: The Lingua controversy
This week’s ‘big story’ undoubtedly was the mass resignation of all the editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier. For those of you who may have missed...
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