By Yassine El Bouchikhi
Sources used:
- ELMAR
- Conference alerts
- AFM marketing
- EMAC
19 avril 2020
Upcoming marketing conferences deadlines & call for chapters (updated)
5 août 2020
Science and religion are complementary not foes! How Science Can Be As Comforting As Religion
28 juillet 2020
Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads! #AcademicPurpose
Key insights from marketing thema:
- 82% research papers are not even cited once
- Of those articles that are cited, only 20% have actually been read
- 50% papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, reviewers & journal editors
- 2 million academic journal articles are published each year! Who read them? Is science still cumulative? Is this pace sustainable and research still makes sense and has a purpose? Who and which discipline is able to collect and curate such volumes of « knowledge’?
By Daniel Lattier For: intellectualtakeout.org
Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit an article to an academic journal. And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will therefore be read by…
Yes, you read that correctly. The numbers reported by recent studies are pretty bleak:
- 82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once.
- Of those articles that are cited, only 20 percent have actually been read.
- Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
So what’s the reason for this madness? Why does the world continue to be subjected to just under 2 million academic journal articles each year?
You can read the entire article here
13 juillet 2020
In Conversation with Danny Dorling – Slowdown | We should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation »
Dorling, D. (2020). Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration–And Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives. Yale University Press.
30 juin 2020
What if we considered our conceptualisation beyond the classic formative/reflective approach? Welcome to network analysis!
You can read this article:
Schmittmann, V. D., Cramer, A. O., Waldorp, L. J., Epskamp, S., Kievit, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Deconstructing the construct: A network perspective on psychological phenomena. New ideas in psychology, 31(1), 43-53.
The method is not a methodology revolution but it’s an original contribution to deal with concepts! The approach is focusing more on the concepts as dynamic networks of relation. It’s an interesting perspective and the authors did a nice pedagogic job to make things easier to understand and apply.
YB
18 juin 2020
The Advantages of Starting with Theory: Addressing the Issue of HARKing (hypothesizing after the results are known)
29 mai 2020
The latest « scientific exploit » from publish ‘&’ perish culture! I don’t even imagine the situation in management, psychology, economics and social sciences
8 Peer reviewed medical papers published and referenced in PubMed used the same « fake » data! Is this model of academia reliable or is it another ‘fake it’ spectacle?
The future is academic authenticity, cumulative knowledge with simple, useful, replicable robust theories! I prefer one meaningful page to an encyclopedia of empty verbiage! Here are 4 great references that i recommend to address this topic of paramount importance!
Hubbard, R. (2015). Corrupt research: The case for reconceptualizing empirical management and social science. Sage Publications.
Harris, R. (2017). Rigor mortis: how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions. Basic Books.
Tourish, D. (2019). Management studies in crisis: Fraud, deception and meaningless research. Cambridge University Press.
Chambers, C. (2019). The seven deadly sins of psychology: A manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice. Princeton University Press.
