• Update Log: PubTrawlr Improvements

    Update Log: PubTrawlr Improvements

    We just pushed some improvements out on the free tier of PubTrawlr. While many of them are cosmetic, there are three main ones to call out. Journal Weighting. We now… Read More

  • Data and Power

    Data and Power

    Data in itself is extremely powerful, and provides us with evidence that can motivate change.  While this is absolutely necessary for progress, we must still consider the “power” that the… Read More

  • Docking into a Safe Harbor: Now Open

    Docking into a Safe Harbor: Now Open

    We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness… Read More

  • February in Community Psychology

    February in Community Psychology

    For such a short month, there’s a lot of new research. Check out PubTrawlr’s monthly synthesis of key community psychology journals at the button below. One article that stood out… Read More

  • February Retractions Report: Retraction Report!

    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… Read More

  • Using readiness for children support services

    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… Read More

  • Following up on IHI’s Stories of COVID

    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… Read More

  • American Exceptionalism in Science: A tiny, tiny analysis

    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… Read More

  • The Cutting Room Floor: 5335 Days of Implementation Science

    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… Read More

  • The Month in Community Psychology: January

    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?… Read More

  • January Retractions

    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… Read More

  • 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… Read More