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The movement to promote responsible research assessment has gained ground in recent years. However, as Federico Vasen, Ismael Ràfols, and Emanuel Kulczycki discuss the transfer of these ideas from elite European systems to other contexts presents paradoxes and a range of governance challenges.

Social sciences (SS) research groups play a central role in advancing interdisciplinary knowledge. However, existing studies on the relationship between disciplinary diversity and scientific performance have predominantly focused on high-income countries and STEMM fields, leaving a gap in understanding these dynamics within SS research groups in middle- and low-income contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationship between disciplinary diversity and scientific performance in SS research groups in Colombia. Drawing on national open-access data from the Colombian research groups national assessments (2013–2021), we analyze 3,640 group–year observations corresponding to 1,105 research groups.

Co-authored by Vasily Nalimov and Zinaida Mulchenko, Naukometriya (1969) introduced the term that came to name the field of scientometrics. However, the book itself had limited impact on the development of the field outside the Eastern Bloc. This paper examines how problems of translation shaped the global circulation of one of scientometrics’ foundational texts. We reconstruct the history of the book’s only English version, a 1971 machine translation produced with the Systran system for the U.S. Air Force, and assess its quality using the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework.

Beyond a substantial increase in LS following the transition to VET, we find no significant average effect of VET-related migration on apprentices’ LS. However, we observe significant effect heterogeneity: migration to enter higher-status (versus lower-status) occupations and migration to urban (versus rural) regions yield larger (short-term) LS gains for apprentices. These results suggest that, beyond strictly VET-related factors, age-specific lifestyle amenities, which become accessible by moving towards urban regions, moderate the effects of internal migration on LS. Overall, our study illustrates the need to consider the specificity of life stages and coupled life events when analysing the effects of migration on LS.

We find that study resources and private resources (especially personal resources such as high self-efficacy) are substantially negatively correlated with the student burnout risk. While the burnout risk differs only slightly by social background, it is notably higher among women than among men, primarily because women consider their study demands to be higher and their personal resources to be lower. Overall, our study illustrates that social groups differ in terms of perceived study demands and resources—and therefore require tailored support to reduce the risk of burnout.

This paper examines the relationship between John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) and the Soviet approach to organize scientific information, focussing on the establishment of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (VINITI).

This study investigates researchers’ appraisals and experiences with criteria for ordering author names on scientific publications. We analyze survey responses of researchers from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany collected by the Zurich Survey of Academics. We find that researchers give normatively highest priority to criteria associated with the extent of research contribution. Relative minorities also favor alphabetical ordering and special treatment of researchers facing assessment situations. In comparison to these ideals, the practical relevance of research contribution is attenuated at the expense of status-based criteria (academic rank), which researchers normatively reject. Preferred criteria do not differ between genders. [...]