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While large and highly societally relevant, the group of doctoral students still plays a subordinate role in the well-being literature. To narrow this research gap, we investigate how their life satisfaction (LS) trajectories developed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We draw on set-point, adaptation, family, and gender theories to examine doctoral students’ LS trajectories before, at the onset of, during, and after the pandemic. Thereby, we consider not only shorter-term but also longer-term consequences of the pandemic.

This report examines which students in European higher education get to study abroad and what factors influence their opportunities. Drawing from data across 23 European countries, we found that: • Older students (30+ years) are less likely to study abroad • Students from wealthier families have more opportunities to study abroad • Students whose parents went to university are more likely to study abroad • Research universities (those that can award PhDs) send more students abroad • Research universities tend to have fewer older students and more students from privileged backgrounds.

Since citation context information has entered the Web of Science (Clarivate) in recent years, one wonders whether the legitimacy and soundness of citation analyses for measuring research quality of publications can be improved by considering this information. The legitimacy and soundness of citation analysis can be established by assessing their construct validity. This can be done by studying how citation impact variables relate to generally accepted external validation data, like human expert assessments of research quality.[...]