What we should learn from pandemic publishing
Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 8, pp. 1631–1634, 2024
Authors of COVID-19 papers produced during the pandemic were overwhelmingly not subject matter experts. Such a massive inflow of scholars from different expertise areas is both an asset and a potential problem. Domain-informed scientific collaboration is the key to preparing for future crises.
Collaboration and topic switches in science
Scientific Reports, vol. 14, pp. 1258, 2024
Collaboration is a key driver of science and innovation. Mainly motivated by the need to leverage different capacities and expertise to solve a scientific problem, collaboration is also an excellent source of information about the future behavior of scholars. In particular, it allows us to infer the likelihood that …