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Beyond the Survival of the Global Humanities

Beyond the Survival of the Global Humanities

Over the past several years, scholars and critics have begun to talk about the survival of the humanities rather than its crisis. This essay traces the emergence of a rhetoric of salvation and survival in academic advocacy literature, evident in the genres, arguments, and metaphors that writers use to describe the academic humanities. 

Neuropsychopharmacology's Approach Toward Improving Rigor and Transparency in Clinical Trials Research

Neuropsychopharmacology's Approach Toward Improving Rigor and Transparency in Clinical Trials Research

NPP is committed to consistent and thorough reporting of clinical research which is essential for rigor, reproducibility, transparency, interpretation, and generalizability of published results to the broader human population.

Balancing National Economic Policy Outcomes for Sustainable Development - Nature Communications

Balancing National Economic Policy Outcomes for Sustainable Development - Nature Communications

Selecting economic policies to achieve sustainable development is challenging due to the many sectors involved and the trade-offs implied. Artificial intelligence combined with economy-wide computer simulations can help.

Citizen Science in Environmental and Ecological Sciences - Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Citizen Science in Environmental and Ecological Sciences - Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Contributory citizen science is a method in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection in whole or in part to advance scientific research. This Primer outlines the use of citizen science in the environmental and ecological sciences, discussing participant engagement, data quality assurance and bias correction.

Americans Experience a False Social Reality by Underestimating Popular Climate Policy Support by Nearly Half - Nature Communications

Americans Experience a False Social Reality by Underestimating Popular Climate Policy Support by Nearly Half - Nature Communications

A new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.

Science Opponents Believe Their Knowledge Ranks Among the Highest, but It is Actually Among the Lowest

Science Opponents Believe Their Knowledge Ranks Among the Highest, but It is Actually Among the Lowest

People with the greatest opposition to the scientific consensus tend to have the lowest levels of objective science knowledge but the highest levels of self-rated knowledge.

Coopetition Between Frenemies-interrelations and Effects of Seven Collaboration Problems in Research Clusters - Scientometrics

Coopetition Between Frenemies-interrelations and Effects of Seven Collaboration Problems in Research Clusters - Scientometrics

This article explores the effects and interrelationships of seven collaboration problems that arise in the context of the tension between cooperation and competition. 

Research Performance and Scholarly Communication Profile of Competitive Research Funding: the Case of Academy of Finland - Scientometrics

Research Performance and Scholarly Communication Profile of Competitive Research Funding: the Case of Academy of Finland - Scientometrics

The Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland's major public research funding agency, uses a Web of Science (WoS) based bibliometric indicator to assess the performance of research it has funded. CRIS-based publication data can support multidimensional assessments of research performance and scholarly communication profiles, potentially also in other countries and institutions. 

The digitalisation paradox of everyday scientific labour: How mundane knowledge work is amplified and diversified in the biosciences

The digitalisation paradox of everyday scientific labour: How mundane knowledge work is amplified and diversified in the biosciences

This paper examines how automation and digitalisation influence the way everyday scientific work practices are organised and conducted. Drawing on a practice-based study of the field of synthetic biology, the paper uses ethnographic, interview and survey data to offer a sociomaterial and relational perspective of technological change.

Global Food Insecurity and Famine from Reduced Crop, Marine Fishery and Livestock Production Due to Climate Disruption from Nuclear War Soot Injection

Global Food Insecurity and Famine from Reduced Crop, Marine Fishery and Livestock Production Due to Climate Disruption from Nuclear War Soot Injection

Calorie availability and extent of food shortages for each nation are estimated following regional or global nuclear war, including impacts on major crops, livestock and fishery production.

Will Anti-Vaccine Activism in the USA Reverse Global Goals?

Will Anti-Vaccine Activism in the USA Reverse Global Goals?

In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine activism in the USA accelerated, forming an alliance with political groups and even extremists. An organized, well-funded anti-science movement now threatens all childhood immunizations.

Journal Impact Factor and Peer Review Thoroughness and Helpfulness: A Supervised Machine Learning Study

Journal Impact Factor and Peer Review Thoroughness and Helpfulness: A Supervised Machine Learning Study

This study indicates that the JIF is a bad predictor for the quality of peer review of an individual manuscript.

A Helping Hand From the Government? How Public Research Funding Affects Academic Output in Less-Prestigious Universities in China

A Helping Hand From the Government? How Public Research Funding Affects Academic Output in Less-Prestigious Universities in China

This study, proposes that the positive impact of public funds is much weaker in less-prestigious universities than in prestigious ones, and that overdependence on public research funding in fact even hurts academic output quality in less-prestigious universities. 

Application of Theories of the Policy Process in Research on Consumption of Sustainable Diets: a Systematic Review - BMC Public Health

Application of Theories of the Policy Process in Research on Consumption of Sustainable Diets: a Systematic Review - BMC Public Health

There is a significant global lack of policy action on consumption of sustainable diets. Application of political science theories such as theories of the policy process can help in understanding policy inaction. Applying these theories could provide a more in-depth understanding of how various influences on the policy process shape decision making for consumption of sustainable diet policy.

Public Use and Public Funding of Science

Public Use and Public Funding of Science

Studying production, funding and consumption of science, a study reveals a strong alignment between what the public consumes and what is impactful, as well as an alignment between funding and collective public use.

Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?

Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?

This study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals.

Pollution Severity-regulated Effects of Roof Strategies on China's Winter

Pollution Severity-regulated Effects of Roof Strategies on China's Winter

Urbanization took place rapidly over recent decades and is expected to continue in the future, producing a series of environmental issues, including heat stress.

A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection

A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management.

Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment

Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment

The paper brings together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice.