This Perspective delivers an introduction to syndemic thinking, and provides insights into how epidemics interact and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this information.

There is a significant global lack of policy action on consumption of sustainable diets. Application of political science theories such as theories of the policy process can help in understanding policy inaction. Applying these theories could provide a more in-depth understanding of how various influences on the policy process shape decision making for consumption of sustainable diet policy.

It seems obvious that lowering the cost of communication among innovators would facilitate scientific and technological progress. Yet, few studies examine this relationship.

This article illustrates the Bayesian Ranking and Lottery approach for two SNSF grant schemes in career and project funding. 

Science Europe presents a set of shared values that may serve as a reference for the policies and practices implemented by Science Europe Member Organisations (research funding and performing organisations).

Studying production, funding and consumption of science, a study reveals a strong alignment between what the public consumes and what is impactful, as well as an alignment between funding and collective public use.

This study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals.

Urbanization took place rapidly over recent decades and is expected to continue in the future, producing a series of environmental issues, including heat stress.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management.

Disparities extend to lower chance of being named on patents and to areas such as healthcare where women dominate

Data reveal that to earn credit on scientific articles, women need to work harder than men.

The paper brings together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. 

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. 

The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study assesses the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification.

This article studies international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries increasingly receive more citations despite researching similar topics as others.

What does it entail to perform a code review for Nature Computational Science?

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

Rapid communication of clinical trial results has likely saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and should become the new norm.

Recent examples of Sino-Russian biotechnology cooperation projects, offering an early account of the emerging integration of two distinct innovation infrastructures.

This article explores how the rise of remote collaboration has shaped disruptive discoveries in science between 1961 and 2020.

Theories on gender bias argue that women in academia benefit less from their academic achievements than men do; women, as a result, show lower rates of success in becoming tenured professors. 

The paper argues for the salience of more detailed empirical investigations into the work of funding bodies as they navigate tensions encountered by researchers.

Good intentions are not enough to bring about change; nor are simple tallies, training programmes or unwarranted rosy views. Change requires sustained investment, appropriate incentives and evidence-backed interventions.

While the planetary boundary framework provides one way of understanding biodiversity or biosphere integrity loss, there are many other measures of biodiversity loss — and all point toward the fact that we are continuing to dangerously destabilize life on Earth.

This paper analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by the case of sociology in Norway. 

COVID-19 researchers have embraced the platform. For many others, tweeting has yet to translate into professional rewards.

This paper presents several suggestions for future measurement of the interdisciplinarity of research. 

Despite longstanding discussions and consequent improvements of gender representation in academia, the number of women working in academic research, their performance and their recognition still indicate the persistence of gender inequalities.

This study found that the average age of scientists at the time of the breakthrough was higher for researchers from less developed countries. Moreover, individual opportunities in the world were extremely unequal by country of birth, gender significantly conditioned any participation in research, and the probability of becoming a top researcher more than doubled for individuals with parents belonging to the most favoured occupational categories. 

This article explores how factors relating to grades and grading affect the correctness of choices that grant-review panels make among submitted proposals. It seeks to identify interventions in panel design that may be expected to increase the correctness of choices.