A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research

This article is a call to action to address escalating threats to scientific progress that affect academic researchers across the globe. These threats include public mistrust of science, challenges in translating academic research to end-user applications, a disconnect between academics and policyma...

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Main Authors: Gaelle Piret, Fun Man Fung, Josie Fullerton, Giuseppe Fico, Dmitriy Ponkratov, Wenxin Chen, Daniela Latorre, Kirsty Y. Wan, Nima Aghaeepour, Jules Welgryn, Adeel Razi, Patricia Silveyra, Ahmet Altun, Renata Z. Jurkowska, Alice C. Hughes, Joy Wolfram
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Published: Elsevier 2025-04-01
Series:The Innovation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675824001966
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Fun Man Fung
Josie Fullerton
Giuseppe Fico
Dmitriy Ponkratov
Wenxin Chen
Daniela Latorre
Kirsty Y. Wan
Nima Aghaeepour
Jules Welgryn
Adeel Razi
Patricia Silveyra
Ahmet Altun
Renata Z. Jurkowska
Alice C. Hughes
Joy Wolfram
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description This article is a call to action to address escalating threats to scientific progress that affect academic researchers across the globe. These threats include public mistrust of science, challenges in translating academic research to end-user applications, a disconnect between academics and policymakers, emerging barriers to international collaboration, and a reliance on conventional metrics to evaluate academic performance. This article presents various calls to action informed by exemplary approaches across the globe that serve as frameworks to drive beneficial transformation for researchers, academic institutions, and society.
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spelling doaj-art-cbb2d233df5c498aae7637d7063df7232025-08-20T02:16:29ZengElsevierThe Innovation2666-67582025-04-016410075810.1016/j.xinn.2024.100758A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic researchGaelle Piret0Fun Man Fung1Josie Fullerton2Giuseppe Fico3Dmitriy Ponkratov4Wenxin Chen5Daniela Latorre6Kirsty Y. Wan7Nima Aghaeepour8Jules Welgryn9Adeel Razi10Patricia Silveyra11Ahmet Altun12Renata Z. Jurkowska13Alice C. Hughes14Joy Wolfram15INSERM U1205, UGA, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, FranceSchool of Chemistry, University College Dublin, D04 C1P1 Belfield, Ireland; UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin, D04 N9Y1 Dublin, IrelandSchool of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, G12 8TA Glasgow, UKEuropean Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; Life Supporting Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainSiemens Digital Industries Software, B90 8BG Solihull, UKDepartment of Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, ChinaInstitute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandLiving Systems Institute & Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter, EX4 4QD Exeter, UKDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USAUniversité Paris Nanterre, 92000 Nanterre, FranceTurner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, WC1N 3AR London, UK; CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, CanadaDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Indiana University School of Public Health Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47408, USADepartment of Pharmacology, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas 58140, Turkey; Corresponding authorDivision of Biomedicine, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, CF10 3AX Cardiff, UK; Corresponding authorSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China; Corresponding authorAustralian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Corresponding authorThis article is a call to action to address escalating threats to scientific progress that affect academic researchers across the globe. These threats include public mistrust of science, challenges in translating academic research to end-user applications, a disconnect between academics and policymakers, emerging barriers to international collaboration, and a reliance on conventional metrics to evaluate academic performance. This article presents various calls to action informed by exemplary approaches across the globe that serve as frameworks to drive beneficial transformation for researchers, academic institutions, and society.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675824001966
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Jules Welgryn
Adeel Razi
Patricia Silveyra
Ahmet Altun
Renata Z. Jurkowska
Alice C. Hughes
Joy Wolfram
A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
The Innovation
title A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
title_full A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
title_fullStr A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
title_full_unstemmed A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
title_short A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
title_sort call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675824001966
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