Large-scale analysis reveals “disruptive” innovations in research history.

Institutional science communication has become a central tool for addressing the challenges of disinformation and strengthening public trust in public institutions. 

Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interventions in the secularisation debate and suggest how the social sciences could benefit from less adversarial claims to objectivity in research.

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are promoted because of their contribution to addressing complex societal challenges. However, barriers to these research modes persist, some of which emerge from challenges in assessing inter- and transdisciplinary research. This article uses the sensitising concept of ‘values’ to study the entanglement of inter- and transdisciplinary research practices and their assessment. 

This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on hyperprolific authorship to examine how it is defined, investigated, and perceived across disciplines.

City governments’ ability to drive green transitions depends not only on technological solutions and administrative capacity, but also on democratic legitimacy.

Efforts to advance towards a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key strategies and sectors needed to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, according to a new study.

New research has found that we are more likely to back policies aimed at tackling climate change when we feel fearful – but feelings of dread make us less likely to support such policies.

Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. 

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies.

Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Preliminary evidence suggests that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.

What the legacy of Trump's storm will be? Will its impacts fade, allowing researchers to go back to their old ways? Or will some things be permanently altered?

When studying policy-relevant topics, researchers’ policy preferences may shape analytical decisions and results interpretations.

"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.

Based on a global study of 2,636 firms across 31 countries, researchers from Kyushu University provide scientific evidence of the economic benefits of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices

A new white paper from Sage shows that social and behavioral science researchers want their work to make societal impact, but don’t perceive their institutions as supportive of that goal. 

The current relationship between researchers, funders and commercial publishers has created a “drain” – depriving the research system of money, time, trust and control.

Generative AI is already being used by some universities to assess the quality of their research - and it could be scaled up to help all higher education institutions save huge amounts of time and money.

Institutional actions might be explored to promote more equitable and effective AI adoption.

The impact of scientific research beyond academia is receiving increasing attention from scientists, science policy, and society in general. However, the mechanisms driving this impact remain unclear.

A refined understanding of the conditions for successful transdisciplinary research lacks. This article addresses this gap by analysing interviews with Horizon project coordinators working on sustainability topics.

A lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among funded projects as well as by lower estimated costs.