Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

And why are we not talking about this? m In a contribution to the LSE Blog on The Impact of the Social Sciences, Sneha Kulkarni highlights issues that should concern us all. Inter alia, she flags problems inherent in the common practice of allowing authors to suggest reviewers. Broadening the discus...

Yes, I agree, Rudy has framed the issue perfectly.

Nancy, thanks for this. One difference between the field notes of in question here and the Second Treatise of Civil Gov. (or similar) that you mention below is that the field notes are generated by Scholar A, ie., by the researcher her/himself. The field notes are already once removed from the "...

In April 2014, The Citizen, a newspaper in Dar es Salaam, ran an article under the headline "Dishonesty in research raises concern." The authors explained how heightened competition for jobs, publications, and research funding could compromise researchers' ethnical standards, and incentivi...

I agree with the suggestion that the proposed "data transparency" initiatives seem to hold qualitative researchers to a higher standard.

Thank you Aili for an excellent statement of the issues involved.

I second all that she has said.