Series: Scholarly Research «

I won an Amazon Kindle 2 from Springer, the academic journal publisher, at AOM 2010 in Montréal!

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Scholarly Research

Although databases like ProQuest, LexisNexis, and ScienceDirect do indeed facilitate and vastly improve research productivity. But the new generation of computer-based journal databases and their reliance on keyword searches and abstracts undermines the significantly-more valid critical process of evaluating references for their actual findings and content before dismissing a reference, considering it further, or determining what articles to follow next in the chain.

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Scholarly Research

Spoilt Scientists Modern scientific inquiry seeks to increase society’s knowledge base as accurately and completely as possible by maximizing validity, reproducibility, and ability to generalize findings of incremental research efforts. In the natural sciences, research has traditionally been quantitative and experimental in design. This is largely because the basic components of systems that the natural [...]

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Amazon’s Kindling 2 for Poor Research Habits in the New Generation of Young Researchers