The blind spots of academic quality assurance
Explore how routine quality assurance in research reporting can overlook complex questions of authorship, contribution, and academic integrity.
Our thoughts in a blog
Contemporary viewpoints about issues related to quality in scientific scholarship
When “top journals” stop being about knowledge: Reflections from an ICT4D researcher
Journal rankings may signal prestige, but they risk privileging conformity over intellectual plurality and misunderstand how meaningful scholarship actually develops and circulates.
From “you should” to “I can”: The positive power and academic pressure
The pressure to publish – and the exponential growth in submission and publication rates – is often attributed to the managerialism that has swept across academia globally. But what if the pressure to publish does not arise only from the evaluation system
A research publishing system at a crossroads
Academic publishing has never been a still pond. It has always shifted with technology, institutional priorities, and the circulation of ideas. Yet the pace and direction of those shifts have changed dramatically in the past two decades.