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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. 

Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic

This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epidemiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Perceptions and Behavior of Clinical Researchers and Research Support Staff Regarding Data FAIRification

Perceptions and Behavior of Clinical Researchers and Research Support Staff Regarding Data FAIRification

The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study assesses the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification.

Leading Countries in Global Science Increasingly Receive More Citations Than Other Countries Doing Similar Research

Leading Countries in Global Science Increasingly Receive More Citations Than Other Countries Doing Similar Research

This article studies international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries increasingly receive more citations despite researching similar topics as others.

The Rise of Sino-Russian Biotech Cooperation

The Rise of Sino-Russian Biotech Cooperation

Recent examples of Sino-Russian biotechnology cooperation projects, offering an early account of the emerging integration of two distinct innovation infrastructures.

On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification

On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification

The paper argues for the salience of more detailed empirical investigations into the work of funding bodies as they navigate tensions encountered by researchers.

Global Biodiversity is in Crisis, but How Bad is It? It's Complicated

Global Biodiversity is in Crisis, but How Bad is It? It's Complicated

While the planetary boundary framework provides one way of understanding biodiversity or biosphere integrity loss, there are many other measures of biodiversity loss — and all point toward the fact that we are continuing to dangerously destabilize life on Earth.