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Conspiracy Theories As Engines of Connection for Enriched Public Debates on Emerging Technologies
Conspiracy Theories As Engines of Connection for Enriched Public Debates on Emerging Technologies
Debates on contested emerging technologies illustrate how publics make sense of science and technology by making unexpected connections between scientific insights, values, hopes and fears.
Advancing transdisciplinarity through library–academic collaboration
Advancing transdisciplinarity through library–academic collaboration
Libraries are a central part of the academic system, which is increasingly embracing a range of approaches for tackling complex societal and environmental problems, including transdisciplinarity.
AI-based Fake Papers Are a New Threat to Academic Publishing
As an editor, I am receiving submissions from spurious authors consisting of previously published papers altered by AI. But why, asks Seongjin Hong
Male Researchers Retract More Papers Than Their Female Peers
A new global study reveals that male researchers have higher paper retraction rates than their female peers. We spoke to the lead author to find out why this could be the case.
Open Science And A Robust IP Strategy: Life Sciences Can Do Both
AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn't discredit science in general.
The Key to Success: Why University Startups Don’t Perform as Well as Corporate Startups
The Key to Success: Why University Startups Don’t Perform as Well as Corporate Startups
The review article explores the differences between university startup entrepreneurs and corporate entrepreneurs, and why the latter are more successful.
Retractions in Scientific Publishing: Why They Happen and Why They Matter
While the decision to retract is always difficult, retractions help ensure research integrity.
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Last May, scientists, political figures and members of Senegalese civil society met in Dakar to discuss the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. At the core of the discussions was the national structuring of science-policy interfaces, spaces for exchange between two worlds that sometimes struggle to agree. This provided an opportunity to talk with Astou Camara, a researcher at the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA), about the need to more effectively connect research and policy.
Learning Outcomes and Evaluation Metrics for Training Researchers to Engage in Science Policy
Learning Outcomes and Evaluation Metrics for Training Researchers to Engage in Science Policy
Making research evidence accessible and relevant to policymakers is one way that the scientific enterprise confers direct societal benefits.
Rethinking the Blue Economy: Integrating Social Science for Sustainability and Justice
Rethinking the Blue Economy: Integrating Social Science for Sustainability and Justice
Accelerating Climate Action in Unfavourable Local Contexts: the Role of Policy Entrepreneurship
Accelerating Climate Action in Unfavourable Local Contexts: the Role of Policy Entrepreneurship
Local authorities are expected to lead on net-zero delivery, irrespective of their capacity to do so. This paper addresses the extent to which they can act on climate change and how policy entrepreneurs can exert agency.
Finnish experts’ perceptions of IPBES operating principles – Synergies and tensions between the multiple evidence base and credibility, policy relevance and legitimacy
Finnish experts’ perceptions of IPBES operating principles – Synergies and tensions between the multiple evidence base and credibility, policy relevance and legitimacy
Intergovernmental science policy organizations assess and mediate knowledge for decision makers, especially their member governments. The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is known as a trailblazer in acknowledging plural knowledge systems because of the multiple evidence base approach it has adopted, which has challenged the older operating principles of credibility, policy relevance, and legitimacy. This paper juxtaposes those principles and the multiple evidence base to study their context-sensitive synergies and tensions, based on experts’ perceptions of IPBES operations.
Human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100: new study shows humanity at a crossroads
Human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100: new study shows humanity at a crossroads
This study identifies five turnarounds which could fundamentally alter humanity's trajectory: ending poverty, reducing inequality, empowering women, and transforming global food and energy systems.
Understanding UK policymakers’ evidence needs through policy questions
Understanding UK policymakers’ evidence needs through policy questions
This study asked UK policymakers if there are common topics for which evidence is requested over time that cut across government departments or agencies, and if there is a preferred style in the way evidence is requested?
AI-mediated Translation Presents Two Possible Futures for Academic Publishing in a Multilingual World
AI-mediated Translation Presents Two Possible Futures for Academic Publishing in a Multilingual World
As the availability and performance of AI for language editing and translation continues to improve, we can imagine a future in which everyone can use their own language to write, assess and read science. The question is, how can we achieve it?
Co-creation of Research Agendas Could Strengthen Policy Research Engagement
Co-creation of Research Agendas Could Strengthen Policy Research Engagement
Research on the conditions for effective engagement between research and policy demonstrates whether policymakers should be involved earlier in the creation of research projects.
Study shows how citizens evaluate scientific research proposals
Study shows how citizens evaluate scientific research proposals
New research by ESMT Berlin and Politecnico di Milano explores how non-experts assess scientific research proposals and reveals key implications for public participation in science funding.
Indian Researchers Call for Balanced and Responsible Research Assessments
Indian Researchers Call for Balanced and Responsible Research Assessments
PRNewswire New Delhi [India], June 11: A global survey conducted by Springer Nature reveals that researchers in India are calling for more balanced and responsible approaches to research assessment, with an emphasis on transparency, integrity, and moving beyond over-reliance on quantitative metrics. Show Full Article The 2024 Research Assessment Survey, which gathered responses from over […]
Climate policy can save half of the world’s glaciers
A study published in Science finds that twice as much of the world’s glacier mass could be preserved by meeting the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement.
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Peer review is crucial for academic communities to ensure high-quality research. Drawing on 39 semi-structured interviews, the study investigates how reviewers for three publishing outlets in psychology experience the tension between community responsibility and various priorities of a more individual kind.
Africa's Quantum Leap
Several African countries have already made their mark on global research in quantum technologies.
NSF and Postwar US Science
In the early days of NSF, its leaders dreamed of large-scale federal investment in basic science but had to carve out a place for the new foundation in the complicated landscape of US science funding.
Understanding ORCID Adoption Among Academic Researchers
Just over a decade ago, the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) was created to provide a unique digital identifier for researchers around the world. The ORCID has proven essential in identifying individual researchers and their publications, both for bibliometric research analyses and for universities and other organizations tracking the research productivity and impact of their personnel. Yet widespread adoption of the ORCID by individual researchers has proved elusive, with previous studies finding adoption rates ranging from 3% to 42%. Using a national survey of U.S. academic researchers at 31 research universities, we investigate why some researchers adopt an ORCID and some do not. We found an overall adoption rate of 72%, with adoptions rates ranging between academic disciplines from a low of 17% in the visual and performing arts to a high of 93% in biological and biomedical sciences. Many academic journals require an ORCID to submit a manuscript, and this is the main reason why researchers adopt an ORCID. The top three reasons for not having an ORCID are not seeing the benefits, being far enough in the academic career to not need it, and working in an academic discipline where it is not needed.
The Importance of a Sound AI Policy in Pharma Research and Development
From accelerating drug discovery and optimizing clinical trials to automating regulatory documentation and improving patient engagement, AI offers opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and bring therapies to market faster.
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