Against the backdrop of the ongoing war conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the article explores the needs, challenges, and opportunities that researchers affiliated with Ukrainian relocated university experienced. In the study, we investigated the impact of the war and the safety situation on...

We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...

"Adam Smith's science of the legislator and the "virtues of the statesman" are understood as a kind of higher order-liberalism, coming close to what Colander and Freedman call "the liberal methodology" pertinent to the role of economics in policy-making. Evolving socio-economic heterogeneities,...

This thematic report comprises an analysis of national strategies and policies for fostering AI in science infrastructure, current challenges, and policy suggestions. It explores the state-of-the-art of the infrastructures for AI in science, examines the potential for innovations such as 'AI...

This report presents the results of five EU Science Diplomacy Working Groups that were established by the European Commission in order to develop recommendations for a European Framework for Science Diplomacy. The working groups consisted of 130 science and diplomacy experts from across Europe,...

Artificial Intelligence is a disruptive set of technologies with the promise to significantly impact all aspects of human life. The main characteristics of AI - extracting value from data, autonomous learning, and problem-solving - make it potentially transformative for research & innovation....

Are estimates typically closer to the true parameter value when those estimates are published in highly-ranked economics journals? Using 14,387 published estimates from 24 large literatures, we find that, within literatures, the mean and variance of parameter estimates have little or no...

The primary motivation for this study is the recent growth and increased interest in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the widespread recognition of its critical importance, a discernible scientific gap persists within the extant scholarly discourse, particularly concerning exhaustive...

Western societies face unprecedented interconnected crises - climate change, democratic instability, rising inequality, and growing science scepticism - that demand fundamental socio-ecological transformation within a compressed timeframe. However, current university systems, shaped by...

In unserem Beitrag setzen wir uns mit institutionellen Veränderungen im österreichischen Wissenschafts- und Universitätssystem unter dem Einfluss von New Public Management und Exzellenzpolitik auseinander. Wir nehmen besonders zwei Maßnahmen in Augenschein, die Metrisierung und...

For several reasons, trust in science in recent years has eroded, throwing serious doubts on once-reliable scientific resources. Although multiple scientific disciplines try to explain the causes and consequences of this worrying decline, we have only scant knowledge about these disciplines’...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the scientific process across all stages, from hypothesis generation and experimental design to data analysis, peer review and dissemination of results. In many research fields, such as the examined protein structure prediction,...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the scientific process across all stages, from hypothesis generation and experimental design to data analysis, peer review and dissemination of results. In many research fields, such as the examined protein structure prediction,...

Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...

We examine whether 'pioneer' regions - early leaders in generating new ideas in emerging scientific fields - develop and maintain an innovation advantage in the same fields over time. Our analysis covers 24 disruptive technologies (e.g. AI, cloud computing) in thousands of OECD regions over 20...

This study examines Open Science practices among economic researchers at German universities and research institutions. A total of 314 scientists from different economic disciplines took part in an online survey to answer questions about their attitudes, applications, barriers, and incentives in...

We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics' backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poorer backgrounds have been severely underrepresented for seven decades, especially in humanities and elite universities. Father's...

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice.Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in...

This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of papers published in entrepreneurship has increased exponentially since the Second World War,...

Academic honesty is crucial for scientific advancement, yet replication crises and misconduct scandals are omnipresent. We provide evidence on scientists' truth-telling from two incentivized coin-tossing experiments with more than 1,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and...

Promoting awareness and encouraging pro-sustainability behaviors to mitigate climate and environmental issues can be challenging due to their polarizing nature. We conduct a large-scale online experiment in Jakarta, the world's fastest sinking city, to examine the impact of messenger identity...

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag untersucht 1) den Zusammenhang zwischen der sozioökonomischen und ethno-lingualen Schulklassenkomposition und den Kompetenzen in Mathematik und den Naturwissenschaften von zugewanderten Jugendlichen und 2), ob Unterschiede in der sozialen Zusammensetzung der...

In einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Aufsatz zur Planungstheorie stellen Benjamin Davy, Meike Levin-Keitel und Franziska Sielker eine "brutal plurality of truths" fest, die die räumliche Planung erschwere. Sie fragen insbesondere, wie Planerinnen und Planer damit umgehen können. Der...