Collections and calls for papers

In response to growing social, ecological and health-related challenges, scientists are increasingly expected to demonstrate the societal relevance of their work. This special issue critically examines the c...

Sixty years ago, Derek de Solla Price observed the explosive growth of science. In his seminal book Little science, big science (Price 1986 [1963]) he developed a quantitative historical approach to study sc...

Guest Editors: Jaron Harambam, Ehler Voss

Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production and research evaluation in the present-day humanit...