Perspectives Highlights: 2022 Most-Read Articles
What did we talk about on Perspectives in 2022? As 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.
New Monthly Webinar Series on How to Get Published
This year SAGE announced a new webinar series focusing on the academic publishing process. This monthly series conducts a deeper dive into the journal world, providing expert advice to researchers and authors on how to get published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.
Top tips on preparing a successful Special Collection proposal
Special Collections have become an essential part of modern journal publishing. In this post, Gordon Mallarkay (PhD), Managing Editor, Special Collections, shares practical advice on how to prepare each of the key elements needed for a Special Collections proposal.
Adding Plain Language Summaries to Support Research that Address Social Inequities
Elena Conroy, Senior Managing Editor, and Avren Keating, Assistant Editor, explain the importance of including Plain Language Summaries (PLS) in fostering a more inclusive and diverse publishing community.
DEI at SAGE Journals: Reflections on our pledge a year in
Martha Avtandilian, Publisher for SAGE's Social Science Journals, reflects on the SAGE Journals Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pledge and shares the progress made so far and what we can look forward to in the near future.
Autoethnographic reflections on composing (and being composed by) an academic career
Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, shares ethnographic reflections on her academic journey, grounded in the domains of music, the arts, and qualitative research in the social sciences
Reed Eaglesham, MS/PhD Human Resources at Cornell University & research fellow at Cornell’s Ithaca Co-La, discusses emerging technologies at work and Diane Bailey’s five policy ideas that could mitigate the negative effects of emerging technologies.
4 Ways You Can Support Indigenous Self-Determination Today
Dr. Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama), member of the Yakama Nation and Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon, explains four ways the research and academic community members can support Indigenous self-determination.
John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University, discusses his journey from Brooklyn, through inner-city Philadelphia as a child and college student, and his reflections on educational inequality.
Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Development of Urban Flood Resilient Spatial Plan for Bhubaneswar
This article discusses the implications of global climate change and urbanization, highlighting the need to understand the urban flood risk and make flood-resilient cities.
Professor Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, PhD, and Dr. Motti Haimi MD. PhD, MHA, discuss their systematic review, which explored the use and availability of telehealth services for the elderly population during the pandemic.
10 tips on how to be an ethical reviewer
Kanika Kamboj, Peer Review Manager at SAGE India Publishing, shares tips on how to be an ethical reviewer and how to contribute to the scholarly conversation in a positive and constructive way.
How does culture affect vaccination acceptance?
James M. Leonhardt, associate professor of marketing at the University of Nevada, discusses their work in the Journal of International Marketing which addresses the question: why do some people vaccinate against COVID-19 while others do not?
Misaligned Time Zones Linked to Highway Deaths
Jeffery Gentry, Professor of Communication at Eastern New Mexico University, explains how more people die in auto accidents if they live in the “wrong time zone,” according to new research published in Time & Society.
In this blog, Dr Felicity Sedgewick and Dr Laura Hull describe some of the health areas where we know autistic women and girls may be uniquely affected, and which they feel are priorities for future research.
What does professionalism mean for today’s GPs?
In this blog, Dr. Nicola Cooper-Moss, GP Speciality trainee and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, shares their personal views on some of the main professional dilemmas affecting GPs today.
Stand Up and Be Heard - Authentic public speaking at university
Dr Rob Grieve, senior lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of the West of England, shares his experience and advice on how to be an authentic public speaker.
Louise Skelding Tattle, Associate Director, Research, and Chair of SAGE’s Research Integrity Group, explains SAGE’s core principles of research integrity and the approach to research integrity and preserving trust.
Meeting Adya Misra – SAGE’s Research Integrity and Inclusion Manager
Katie Willis interviews Adya Misra, SAGE’s Research Integrity and Inclusion Manager, about her role, what she hopes to accomplish and the challenges publishers face.
Dr. Kody Colvin, elementary school principal in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ed.D in Educational Leadership & Policy, discusses the queer youth experience in education and how parents can advocate for their children.
The Public Health Response to Human Trafficking: A Look Back and a Step Forward
Jordan Greenbaum, Ginny Sprang and Hanni Stoklosa, discuss the gaps in human trafficking research and their recommendations for how future publish health research could be conducted to help change the systems of structures which allow human trafficking to continue.