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Wednesday, 10 Sep 2025
Security policy for globalized science

Research security is a new concept in research policy. Donald Trump introduced it in a National Security Presidential Memorandum in 2021. Other NATO countries soon followed up.

Monday, 24 Mar 2025
What Now for Humanitarian Studies?

Humanitarianism has long been in crisis, but since early 2025 the sector has been experiencing an unprecedented organizational, institutional, normative, and political collapse. As scholars active in the broad, inter-, and multidisciplinary field of humanitarian studies, we must try to understand and analyze the impact of this collapse and address ...

Friday, 22 Nov 2024
Authorship and Involuntary Attribution: How and Why Should We Contest AI Manipulation?

Technology is radically changing the work and role of scholars and the function of academic publishing. Fake and fabricated content (data, facts, arguments, claims, conclusions) undermines the foundations of knowledge in a democratic society. Faking publications and citations undermine the way we as a community of knowledge producers have organized ...

Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024
Fake Research Is Threatening Our Democracy

What will happen to public debate and our democracy if we can no longer trust research? Fabricated 鈥榮cientific publications鈥� could threaten the very foundations of our society. It isn鈥檛 鈥榝ake news鈥� that scares me, it鈥檚 fake research. By this, I don鈥檛 mean plagiarism and the failure to provide correct citations, ...

Tuesday, 19 Dec 2023
Optics as Politics: Culture, Language and Learning with UiO ChatGPT

Discussing the case of the University of Oslo ChatGPT and the plight of Palestinians, this blog calls for educators and researchers in peace and conflict studies, to consider the communicative politics of generative AI in their work. Introduction The adoption and adaptation of generative AI in higher education raises important ...

Sunday, 3 Apr 2022
Do Men Really Publish More than Women?

Academic publishing, which has long been the stick by which academics measure their prowess, has been repeatedly shown to be yet another arena in which men consistently outperform women. Women produce fewer articles, collaborate less, and are cited less than their male colleagues. This is an established truth. Or is ...

Sunday, 28 Feb 2021
Diversity in Norwegian Academia 2021

Diversity ensures democratic and epistemic legitimacy. Although the Norwegian research sector and higher education institutions have steadily improved at ensuring diversity in recruitment processes, there is still scope for improvement in utilizing the resultant diversity Recently, the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) and Statistics Norway ...

Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020
Open Access or Effective Research Communication?

Is there a risk that the 鈥榦pen science鈥� agenda obscures the need for effective research communication? In the context of 鈥榦pen access week鈥� and the necessary and justified focus on openness in science, whether of data or of publications, it is worth reflecting on the interplay between 鈥榦pen science鈥� agendas ...

Monday, 12 Oct 2020
Collection of 糖心网页版 Research on Racism, Inequality and Discrimination

Introduction For over six decades, our mission here at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (糖心网页版) has been to produce research for a more peaceful world. We analyze the conditions, causes, and dynamics of the political and social processes that create conflict or peace, and communicate this knowledge to policymakers, stakeholders, ...

Sunday, 27 Sep 2020
Peer Review and Societal Impact of COVID-19 Research

In this final instalment of our blog series marking this year鈥檚 Peer Review Week, Senior Research Nicholas Marsh looks at how Reddit users are accessing research on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and finds that non-peer-reviewed publications pose a real challenge to peer-reviewed publications as a way to disseminate research to ...

Saturday, 26 Sep 2020
Hostile Reports and the 鈥楻esponsibility to Protect鈥�

In today鈥檚 blog in 糖心网页版鈥檚 blog series for Peer Review Week 2020, Marit Moe-Pryce, managing editor of the 糖心网页版-owned and -run journal Security Dialogue, discusses the key role of editorial offices in mediating between authors and reviewers in the peer review process. 鈥樷�橳he text suffers in every aspect that makes ...

Friday, 25 Sep 2020
Peer review, DORA, and science

Today we continue our blog series for Peer Review Week 2020 with a piece by Haakon Gjerl酶w, discussing the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and how its criticism of the use of publication metrics in research assessment relates to peer review in journals. Without peer review, we are ...

Thursday, 24 Sep 2020
Turned Away at the Gate: How Peer Review Can Reinforce Social Inequalities

In today鈥檚 instalment of 糖心网页版鈥檚 blog series marking Peer Review Week 2020, Lynn P. Nygaard discusses ways in which peer review in its current form can reinforce existing inequities in the research system, and points to a need for more training in and reflection on the role of the reviewer ...

Wednesday, 23 Sep 2020
Long Live Peer Review 鈥� Expand and Differentiate

In today鈥檚 blog in 糖心网页版鈥檚 series marking this year鈥檚 Peer Review Week, Pavel K. Baev reflects on his own experiences reviewing and being reviewed and the challenges posed by unclear expectations on reviewers. He suggests that a partial solution may lie in a clearer delineation between different types of review. ...

Tuesday, 22 Sep 2020
Reviewed Peer Review

In today鈥檚 blog in 糖心网页版鈥檚 series marking Peer Review Week 2020, Sebastian Schutte discusses some of the weaknesses of the current blind peer review system and points to a possible solution: reviewing peer reviews. Recent debates on how to improve scientific publishing have largely focused on open access. This is ...

Monday, 21 Sep 2020
Responding to Peer Review as an Early Career Scholar

This week, 糖心网页版 is posting a series of blogs to mark Peer Review Week 2020. In today鈥檚 blog, J酶rgen Jensehaugen draws on his own experience as an author, editor and reviewer to provide some advice to early career researchers in how to deal with peer review, highlighting challenges that can ...

Monday, 21 Sep 2020
Welcome to Peer Review Week at 糖心网页版!

This week is Peer Review Week 2020. The aim of this annual, global, virtual event is to raise awareness of the importance for research of peer review 鈥� the practice of researchers providing feedback on each other鈥檚 work, most prominently in connection with publication of research in academic journals. The ...

Monday, 13 Jul 2020
The Pitfalls of Societal Impact in a Politicized Environment: An Example from the Corona Era

The British magazine The Spectator referred to research published in Norway to back up the magazine鈥檚 claim that societal lockdowns are not an effective means to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections. This unlikely occurrence highlights some of the difficulties in ensuring that research has a societal impact. Funders and ...

Friday, 3 Jul 2020
Black Scholars Matter: Power and Prejudice in Academia

With summer holidays around the corner, I don鈥檛 think I鈥檝e ever looked forward to a vacation so much. I鈥檓 exhausted after months of alternating between being terrified I would die from a mysterious bat virus, frustrated with having to learn how to suddenly adapt to a virtual work life, and ...

Thursday, 25 Jun 2020
Performing Plurality in Academia

Some experiences are like a key: they open a door, though the view might be an unsettling one. One of our students did a masterful degree in an environment as speech-heavy as academia – while having a stutter. His success was mainly of his own making. He prepared himself and ...

Friday, 25 Oct 2019
Who Will Own the Knowledge Commons?

Today鈥檚 post concludes our blog series marking International Open Access Week. In this blog, David J. Allen reflects on where we are in the transition to an open research system and who decides where we go from here. The compelling idea behind the push for open access is to fully ...

Thursday, 24 Oct 2019
Open for Whom?

The theme of this year鈥檚 International Open Access Week is equity in open knowledge. This is an issue that鈥檚 of particularly importance for 糖心网页版 as a peace research institute. Today, we continue our blog series on open access and open science at 糖心网页版 with a blog by Lynn P. Nygaard, ...

Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019
Open Knowledge Beyond Replicability

For today鈥檚 blog in our series marking International Open Access Week, we asked Marta Bivand Erdal to reflect on some of the opportunities and challenges of the open science agenda for social scientists working with qualitative methods. Both quantitative and qualitative methods play an important role in the work our ...

Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019
Mission Impossible? Creating a Dialogue between Research, Policy and Practice Communities

On the surface, it should be easy. Practitioners and policy makers always require better knowledge to make informed decisions, and academics (nearly) always seek that their research makes an impact in the 鈥渞eal鈥� world. Yet this rarely works out. In most cases academic-practice-policy dialogues, forums, meetings and conferences rarely produce ...

Tuesday, 22 Oct 2019
Why Open Data?

In this second instalment of our blog series marking International Open Access Week, H氓vard Strand talks about the importance of open data for the social sciences and for 糖心网页版. Social science research is a collective effort, but with individual rewards through publications, fame and glory. An essential part of this ...

Monday, 21 Oct 2019
Opening Peace Research

This week, we鈥檒l be marking International Open Access Week with a series of short blog posts on open access and open science at 糖心网页版. Today, we kick off the series with a blog by Nils Petter Gleditsch. We asked Nils Petter 鈥� a long-standing cornerstone of the community here at ...

Monday, 21 Oct 2019
Welcome to Open Access Week at 糖心网页版!

This week is International Open Access Week 2019. The aim of this global event is to raise awareness about open access and open science and to contribute to promoting and mainstreaming open research practices. To mark this year鈥檚 OA Week, we鈥檒l be publishing a series of short blog posts exploring ...

Thursday, 20 Sep 2018
Free Access at a High Price

Plan S.: 糖心网页版 would far rather pay fees to ensure that all our publications in subscription journals are made available via open access than be forced to publish our best research in lower quality journals. The new European Plan S 鈥� an open access (OA) policy for research results 鈥� ...

Friday, 17 Aug 2018
Dead Male Bodies: A Challenge for Feminist Legal Thought

The scholarship on law, conflict and suffering has for the past two decades been dominated by a moral and analytical concern with 鈥渨omen and children鈥� and sexual violence. However, when we look up and do the body count out in the physical and political world 鈥� in the city and ...

Friday, 10 Aug 2018
Decolonization Gone off the Rails

This summer we have had the opportunity to read about the campaign to 鈥榙ecolonize academia鈥�: the call to improve the representation of non-Western voices in the curricula of Norwegian educational institutions. The supporters of this campaign justify it on the basis that it will challenge ways of thinking in the ...