: The policy positions parties choose are central to both attracting voters and forming coalition governments. How then should parties choose positions to best represent voters?...

Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is...

Background In practical research, it was found that most people made health-related decisions not based on numerical data but on perceptions. Examples include the perceptions...

International audience; Stochastic mechanistic epidemiological models largely contribute to better understand pathogen emergence and spread, and assess control strategies at...

Background System science approaches are increasingly used to explore complex public health problems. Quantitative methods, such as participatory dynamic simulation modelling,...

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify. Recent modeling...