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.

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. 

A paradigm shift away from null hypothesis significance testing seems in progress. Based on simulations, the article illustrates some of the underlying motivations.

Apart from economic, political, and cultural cooperation for an equal growth of all developing countries, science and technology are an integral significant component in these levels of engagement for leveraging mutual gains. The current pandemic not only brought about an 1800 shift in the relationship between the government, policy makers, and the scientific community but highlights the importance of South–South Cooperation (SSC).

The emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 led to explosive growth in scientific research. Given the high stakes of the situation, it is essential that scientific findings, on which good policy depends, are as robust as possible; as the empirical example shows, reproducibility is one of the keys to ensure this.

This study examines psychologists' motivations to share data and how to better promote psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption.

Paper finds that the disciplinary background and the academic status of the referee have an influence on their reviewing tasks.  Articles that had been recommended by a multidisciplinary set of referees were found to receive subsequently more citations than those that had been reviewed by referees from the same discipline.

Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.

The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.

Time devoted to research is increasingly precious to us in academia. We chastise ourselves for not being able to keep up with the huge volumes of current literature. If only there was some way that all the latest literature on a particular topic could be packaged together for us, and delivered right to our inbox without us even having to lift a finger! Now, what would we call such an improbable utopia – ah yes, peer review.

Evidence from Web of Science showing that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities.

With the rise of Wikipedia as a first‐stop source for scientific information, it is important to understand whether Wikipedia draws upon the research that scientists value most. Here we identify the 250...

A paper that suggests that the imposition of arbitrary manuscript length limits discourages the publication of more impactful studies.

A review focusing on how gender inequality manifests and unfolds throughout the academic career life course.

On the democratization of science via the Internet and the dramatic change in the communication of data and in their interpretation.

Respondents value recognition initiatives related to receiving feedback from the journal over monetary rewards and payment in kind.

Grantsmanship and service activities appeared as the most critical factors associated with faculty burnout.

Evidence from 34 OECD countries.

A survey of 307 reviewers of submissions to the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems to gain a better understanding of their motivations for reviewing.

The case of the human-computer interaction community.

The scale of the problem from an academic perspective.