This contribution begins by arguing that indicators in themselves do not have effects, but that it is crucial to understand which questions in the wider culture and governance...

This poster described the process used to review and refine the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers' framework of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management....

Professor Marilyn Strathern reflects on the essays comprising the ESTS Thematic Collection, "Implicated in the Indicator Game? An Experimental Debate."

On 19th December 2019, the Club of associated research organisations (Clora) of Brussels hosted the second policymakers’ Session of RISIS project. During the session, Benedetto...

Julien McHardy draws on his work with the alternative publishing collective Mattering Press to explore the importance of opening up and maintaining “bewildering spaces within”...

Assessing the consequences of human exploitation at different intensities on ecosystem services is important in the Brazilian Araucaria Forest biome, because it has been...

ABSTRACTWe study regional patterns of scientific knowledge production in Europe using all scientific publications in the period 2000?2014 attributed to 813 scientific subfields....

The European Union (EU) is fundamentally an economic union. It was formed in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. The initial target of the six founding members was to begin a process...

Within the urban context, heritage conservation has been acknowledged as fundamental for sustainable development. This paper address the need to develop methodologies that...

This essay aims at relating the growth of indicators to the shifting temporalities of academic work. Drawing on research into academic work and lives but also on professional...

Resumo  Objetivo: Este artigo apresenta um estudo quantitativo relacionado distribuição de mamógrafos e mamografias, com o objetivo de contribuir para a discussão sobre o...

International audience; This paper proposes to broaden by more than 10%-compared with the current practice-the set of applications for priority patents, which is used to compute...

This essay offers a perspective on journal impact factor (JIF) centrism in academic evaluation from the vantage point of academic publishing in an increasingly data-driven...

Professor Maureen McNeil reflects on the essays comprising the ESTS Thematic Collection, "Implicated in the Indicator Game? An Experimental Debate."

The paper is devoted to the study of the problem of effective quality evaluation of the implementation of municipal target programs in the regions of the Russian Federation. The...

Professor Daniel Lee Kleinman reflects on the essays comprising the ESTS Thematic Collection, "Implicated in the Indicator Game? An Experimental Debate."

Citation networks have fed numerous works in scientific evaluation, science mapping (and more recently large-scale network studies) for decades. The variety of citation behavior...

Large-scale environmental changes pose challenges that straddle environmental, economic, and social boundaries. As we design and implement climate adaptation strategies at the...

Background: Risk prediction models for colorectal cancer (CRC) detection in symptomatic patients based on available biomarkers may improve CRC diagnosis. Our aim was to develop,...

The rise of new modes evaluating academic work has substantially changed institutions and cultures of knowledge production. This has been reflected and criticized in the...