January 2024 marks the start of the second phase of our ‘Fragmentation of Research’ Campaign with a focus on the sub-theme, ‘siloed knowledge’. We will explore the fragmentation of research from the viewpoint of those areas of research where a lack of integration reveals instances where research findings remain isolated, limiting their broader applicability across the research ecosystem.

Is industry making a shift away from offshoring to reshoring closer to home? We shine a spotlight on what the data tells us.

Is it time for the scientific world to acknowledge and embrace work published in all languages, to help diversify and enrich research globally?

2023 marks the halfway point between 2015 (the entry point of the Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs), and 2030 (the end point of the SDGs). As it stands currently, the world is off track to achieving the SDGs and action is necessary to accelerate their implementation.

In this blog we present findings from a bibliometric evaluation of scientific publications that include a contribution from the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the Global North and Global South, which have been indexed in Digital Science’s Dimensions database in the past five years (2018 to 2022). The study maps aspects of the landscape in this area exploring differences in pharmaceutical research practices from different perspectives including funding and collaboration, pharmaceutical research and its association with the SDGs, the impact of the cost of medicines developed by pharma and their accessibility in distinct geographic regions. The results show significant gaps between the two global areas, but also some ways where these gaps are now closing.

Research has the power to change lives, break down barriers and create unity & equity. When the research community solves problems together extraordinary breakthroughs can happen. But post-pandemic, fragmentation in the research ecosystem remains one of the biggest challenges to the ability of researchers to make a real-world difference. We want to challenge the status quo, highlight the issues, and share positive ways to create better synergy and collaboration, helping to unite a divided research world.

In this short, informal interview, Dr Briony Fane and Dr Juergen Wastl explain some of the methods behind their work on assessing how global research ties into the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. If you're new to SDGs and want to get a quick idea of how to look at them through a number of different lenses, this is the introduction for you.

With trust in research a critical issue, our team takes a detailed look at a key 'trust marker' in research publications on vaccine hesitancy.

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