This study examines how Italy’s department-based excellence funding reshaped academic recruitment, revealing stronger gains in external hiring and early-career positions—especially among near-elite departments.
By analysing over 91,000 ERC proposals with AI-based language models, this study explores whether the ERC’s celebrated bottom-up funding model is truly neutral toward research topics.
This study reveals how seniority, mobility, discipline, and collaboration shape scientists’ ability to balance specialization with innovation and diversify their research over time.
Analysing promotion data from Turkish social science departments, this study shows how rigid publication metrics incentivise strategic gaming, favoring easily produced outputs over substantive international research.
The article explores how international and local publications influence promotion before and after the introduction of similar policy change in Turkey.
The paper explores the effectiveness of a funding instruments supporting the long-term re-location of senior scientists: the Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (MSCA CIG).
This contribution investigates variations across countries in climate change research specialization, considering 193,471 publications from 1990 to 2020.
The article analyzes regional and sectoral differences in attracting EU Framework Program funding, revealing evolving patterns of divergence and convergence.
The article evaluates Norway’s Foundation Dam’s new two-stage review system, showing it reduces workload while maintaining evaluation reliability.
This article describes changes in the scientific publishing system that undermine the reliability of the bibliometric indicators and identify some key aspects that should inform the choice of the journal.
