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Ein Viertel der Studierenden fühlt sich in ihrem Studium diskriminiert, von diesen berichtet knapp die Hälfte mehr als einen Diskriminierungsgrund.

Bibliometric methods and bibliometric indicators are important, albeit disputed, tools in empirical studies of science systems and in research evaluation. Their validity and acceptance is partly due to their statistical scope, allowing for analyses at large scales, such as entire countries, for which the cost of employing qualitative methods is too high. Bibliometric methods are deeply data-driven which makes the trustworthiness of the statements and interpretations derived from bibliometric studies very data-dependent. Science studies researchers have long recognized that poor quality data is a possible threat to informative scientific outcomes and solid, defensible quantitative assessment of research. [...]

Das DZHW-Promoviertenpanel 2014 ist eine Panelstudie des DZHW zu den Karrieren Promovierter. Im Rahmen der Studie wird untersucht, welche Einflüsse die formalen Promotionskontexte und die konkreten Lern- und Entwicklungsbedingungen, die Promovierte während ihrer Promotionsphase vorgefunden haben, auf den beruflichen Übergang nach der Promotion und auf den weiteren Berufsverlauf innerhalb und außerhalb der Wissenschaft ausüben. Die Grundgesamtheit der Befragung umfasst alle Personen, die im Prüfungsjahr 2014 in Deutschland an einer Hochschule mit Promotionsrecht eine Promotion abgeschlossen haben. [...] Vollständiger Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:phd2014:6.0.0

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.

Das EUROSTUDENT-Projekt sammelt und analysiert vergleichbare Daten über die soziale Dimension der europäischen Hochschulbildung. Es wird eine breite Palette von Themen im Zusammenhang mit den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen der Studierenden abgedeckt. Das Projekt ist bestrebt, zuverlässige und aufschlussreiche länderübergreifende Vergleiche zu liefern. Dies geschieht durch die Verbindung eines zentralen Koordinationsansatzes mit einem starken Netzwerk von nationalen Partnern in jedem teilnehmenden Land. Auf diese Weise kann eine Bewertung der Stärken und Schwächen der jeweiligen nationalen Rahmenbedingungen im internationalen Vergleich vorgenommen werden. [...] Vollständiger Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:es8:4.0.0

Bots lassen sich in Online-Umfragen unter anderem durch auffällig hohe Abschlussraten, Item-Nonresponse, nicht substanzielle Antworten bei offenen Fragen, auffälliges Antwortverhalten bei CATA-Fragen, unplausible Bearbeitungszeiten, inkonsistente Angaben sowie durch Analyse von Paradaten wie Tastatureingaben erkennen.

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.