AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2011/2012

A Very Slow Recovery: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2011–12The AAUP released its annual review of faculty compensation, read the April 9, 2012 press release.Average Salary for Full-Time Faculty, by Category, Affiliation, and Academic...

Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing

A study was released in Science magazine on February 3rd: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing. The authors analyzed 6672 responses from a survey sent to researchers in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines (marketing,...

Does online access boost citations?

This is the question posed by two researchers in their working paper:Did Online Access to Journals Change the Economics Literature? (SSRN)Mark McCabe, adjunct professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, economics...