A PhD student recently asked me how to count the review rounds of a paper that is under review — and I failed to give a clear answer. In fact, realized that I have always been a little bit confused about the issue myself. So I decided to clear up…

In this post, Silvia Masiero and I reflect upon gender bias in the academic field of information systems. In April 2020, the female co-author of this post submitted a panel proposal to a renowned conference in the field of information systems. The evaluations of the panel proposal were single-blind, that…

Plagiarism is a gross academic misconduct that should be treated with zero tolerance. Merriam-Webster defines plagiarism as “the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person”. However, every now and then I hear a colleague worrying about self-plagiarism — usually related to their own…

Academics are almost always working. We love what we do and, I believe, many of us are like me who cannot stop thinking about my research. …

I am not the first one to write this post (see here and here) and hopefully not the last. Recently, I started receiving requests from Academia.edu to review papers for their Academia Letters publication. The requests are seemingly generated by an algorithm as they state in the emails: “While we…

This is a short summary of data science concepts I wrote for undergraduate students at Temple University. Data are records that contain facts about some phenomenon. The data can be unstructured such as natural language writings and images or structured such as weather readings and stock prices. The structure of…

Every now and then one comes across the idea that academics should be paid for doing peer reviews. The reasoning goes usually something like this — peer reviewing takes up a fair amount of an academic researcher’s time; therefore, paying for peer reviews would be fair and could help particularly…