Does professional editing lead to better academic papers? New research quantifies the value added of language editors The job of language editors is to make research manuscripts clearer, more concise, and easier to read. Do publishing gatekeepers notice the...
Podcast with Dr Abdullah Al-BahraniWhy do social scientists need editors? Standard Error founder Samantha Eyler-Driscoll sits down with Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani of “Econ with Dr. A” to discuss the company’s mission and how academic editors work to improve scientific...
return to blog Defund or Reform? New Work Looks at What Investors (and Economists) Expect for the Future of US Policing How do social uprisings against police brutality affect police vendors? The authors of a new NBER WP investigate and raise pointed questions for...
What the preprint revolution means for researchers in the Global South Has the advent of open science platforms remedied geographical bias in attention to new research? In a word: No. A new NBER working paper looks at the allocation of reader attention to new research...
return to blog The Nelson memo and the dinosaurs Could the White House’s new public access policy for federally funded research disrupt the academic publishing oligopoly? In our inaugural blog post, Standard Error presents a short chat on the OSTP’s...
