February Retractions Report: Retraction Report!
The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, so we’re down to the last two. I, for one, will welcome the ever-unpredictable March to the year. As expected, it was a light month for retractions. The main item of note is the retraction of this article led by Jamal Mansour out of Queen Margaret University,…
Using readiness for children support services
The Judge Baker Children’s Center (JBCC) up in Boston are among the leaders in evidence-based support and implementation. Starting about 6ish years ago, I began to work with them around how readiness tools could be used to support evidence-based technical assistance and implementation. JBCC has been applying a readiness lens across multiple projects in New…
Following up on IHI’s Stories of COVID
A few groups that I’m working with have an interest in developing repositories of stories. The idea is that by collecting community-initiated improvement projects, we can tap into creative thinking and spread these more widely. A good, bottom-up approach. This reminded me of my previous posts on IHI’s Stories of COVID. I visited the IHI…
A useless history of the “Frameworks are Like Toothbrushes” quote
This morning, I was about to tweet the super insightful quote: Frameworks are like toothbrushes. Everyone has one, but nobody wants to use someone else’s. and got to thinking about the attribution. I first heard this quote from the great Soma Saha from WE in the World, but the roots had to go back further.…
American Exceptionalism in Science: A tiny, tiny analysis
Morning folks. We were doing some improvement work on PubTrawlr this morning, and decided just to play around with the social services database that it pulls from. Since the metadata doesn’t have much information apart from journal titles, that’s where I started. Without going into the long and sordid backstory, I have been really resistant…
The Cutting Room Floor: 5335 Days of Implementation Science
We’re getting close to resubmitting our NLP analysis of about 1700 abstracts from Implementation Science. In getting to that point, we had to trim and remove a bunch of figures and analyses that just didn’t fit, or had to be adjusted to address reviewer comments. It was still cool, though!, so we wanted to share…
The Month in Community Psychology: January
A light month in publications. January has long been the dumping ground for movies that studios don’t really want to think about anymore. Potentially the same is true for articles? JPS Note: 2.16.21. This link works now. My bad ???? CBPR continues to dominate the published literature. There are also a bunch of really interesting…
January Retractions
This is PubTrawlr’s monthly retraction notice. At first, it appeared that the journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment really took it on the chin with a series of article from what appears to be one lab. The editors specifically remark: Following the conclusion of our investigation the decision has been made to retract the published article. The…
Community Readiness indicators: Reflections on ‘Twitter and Tear Gas’
In the ReSOLV project, part of our task is to identify how community readiness impacts the ability of school districts to promote schools safety. In 2020, our work was disrupted by the twin zeitgeist changing events of George Floyd’s murder and the COVID-19 pandemic. One of our great P.I.s, Trish Campie suggested that we look…
Move over Preston and Unspeakable: The Next YouTube Star is here!
PubTrawlr has been out for about three weeks now, and many of our friends have told us some variation of, “PubTrawlr is really cool, but how do you use it?” This is problematic for a few reasons, but the central one is that we designed PubTrawlr to be straightforward and intuitive. Clearly, we have more…
Data Feminism: A book recommendation
Heads up: I clipped the above image from the Data Feminism website. It’s not mine. My buddy Yakov Bressler has been the source of many books recommendations that have greatly expanded and clarified how I think about systemic issues in our society and what the role of evaluation is in supporting progressive changes. Far and…
Even More on Barriers and Facilitators
Happy Birthday, PubTrawlr! Today is the day PubTrawlr moves live and open for business. In honor of this occasion, I fired it up for one of my favorite topics; barriers and facilitators. In my humble opinion, barriers and facilitators work is stale. I think I’ve read hundreds of versions of the sentence, “Leadership and buy-in…
