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Welcome to an exciting roundup curated by the Sage Perspectives team! As we reflect on the dynamic year that was, we are thrilled to unveil a compilation of blog posts that captivated our audience and received the highest number of views from January 2023 to January 2024.
Read MoreAs the year comes to an end, we’re sharing the most-read articles this year, featuring contributions from authors from a wide range of disciplines, from publishing advice and research integrity to ethnographic reflections.
Read MorePlain language summaries (PLS) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the scientific literature as they have the potential to broaden the impact of scholarly articles by bringing them to the attention of a more general audience. In this blog, we aim to guide authors through the process of developing a PLS for a manuscript suitable for submission to SAGE Journals.
Read MoreLike many other disciplines — or at least those in the Westernized Global North with which I am familiar — my discipline of music education has been grappling of late with the question of what it means to ethically conduct research in the 21st century.
Read MoreResearch Integrity in 2022 continues to focus on efforts made by scholarly publishers to maintain the integrity of the published record. Here are steps researchers can take to uphold research integrity principles more proactively and avoid post-publication disputes.
Read MoreThe standard tests of memory that clinicians use are not able to reliably detect dementia until the disease has progressed significantly - can this be changed?
Read MoreSince our special issue on human trafficking in The ANNALS (Volume 653 in 2014), we are happy to report that there has been significant growth in both the quantity and quality of research on human trafficking. Here are our findings.
Read MoreTo counter and eventually eliminate human trafficking (HT) requires not only a strong response from the criminal justice system, but also a comprehensive, rigorous public health response. We’ve come a long way in the past 20 years, but there’s still much to be done - here are recommendations for future research.
Read MoreSAGE is proud to sponsor the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity, with its focus on research integrity in relation to inequality. Find out more about SAGE’s role in fostering research integrity in an unequal world.
When you publish an article with a prominent academic journal, you are participating in a conversation with your colleagues around the world as well as scholars who came before you and will come after you. Anyone who reads your article should be able to easily identify your unique contributions and the works you have built on to make those contributions.
Read MoreWhat do the words “arrests “, “exorbitant”, “extraordinary”, and “destruction” have in common? At first glance, you might say “absolutely nothing”. My response, as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Toxicology, would be that non-scientific words such as these are not appropriate for use in the titles of journal articles that present the results of biomedical research.
Read MoreSAGE Publishing has released the five-year Journal Impact Factors (JIF) for the third year running, as part of a wider initiative to broaden the scope of alternative measures of research impact.
Read MoreWhat are journal editors, funders, and publishers doing to support researchers of all backgrounds – specifically those who have been underrepresented, unheard, and underprivileged? What impact does this effort have on the research environment and even for the research itself? And what can we learn from each other to enable new changes that address shortcomings?
Read MoreAs the insurgents stormed the Capital, there could no longer be any remaining doubt – democracy was in danger. The warning signs had been gathering for years. Not just in the United States, but throughout most of the developed world. In fact, rich and compelling empirical evidence makes it clear that democracy has been eroding across a broad spectrum of national and institutional contexts.
Read MoreRecently, I wrote an article for Forbes magazine on why we need better design thinking. The short answer to this question is that designers, traditionally, were not paying much attention to research as a way to inform their work. As a result, the products and the services that they were designing were often self-serving and egocentric.
Read MoreThe SAGE Perspectives blog team are delighted to share with you the top read blog posts from 2020. Covering a wide range of issues from the COVID-19 pandemic to racism in society, as well as offering support and advice for our authors, editors and reviewers, each of these blog posts offers some new insights for our readers.
Read MoreOctober is ‘Halloween season’ ― a fun cultural holiday for many people worldwide. It represents a socially sanctioned time of year when children and adults alike can escape to a realm of fantasy and mystery that involves the simultaneous expression of the ‘lighter’ and ‘darker’ sides of human nature. In addition to carving pumpkins, dressing in costume, and the nightly ritual of trick-or-treating, a favorite activity this month for many people is the psychosocial phenomenon known as ‘paranormal tourism.’
Read MoreIn the final part of this series, Devyn talks to Aanchal and Louise about synchrony in Autism Spectrum Conditions, a new side project, and disruptions to school research.
Read MoreSo there I was... on the 9th of June, 2020, wearing work attire for the first time in three months, sitting in front of a green screen, in a video conference with 40+ people on three continents. This culminating experience went from something I was dreading to a day that could not have been more special, and it would not have happened without a pandemic.
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