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  • PaperarXiv.org28 January 2025

    Understanding the importance of SHAPE to the UK research ecosystem

    The UK has a long-established reputation for excellence in research across a broad range of fields, but in recent years, there has been greater emphasis on STEM investment and greater recognition of the UK's success in STEM. This paper examines the relative strengths of SHAPE disciplines and demonstrates that the UK's SHAPE research portfolio outperforms the UK's STEM research, for each international benchmark considered in this work. It is argued that SHAPE research is becoming increasingly important as a partner to STEM as the widespread use of technology creates societal challenges. It is also argued that the strength of UK SHAPE is the basis of a strategic advantage for UK research.

  • PaperarXiv.org9 April 2024

    The Rise and Fall of the Initial Era

    Bibliographic data is a rich source of information that goes beyond the use cases of location and citation -- it also encodes both cultural and technological context. For most of its existence, the scholarly record has changed slowly and hence provides an opportunity to gain insight through its reflection of the cultural norms of the research community over the last four centuries. While it is often difficult to distinguish the originating driver of change, it is still valuable to consider the motivating influences that have led to changes in the structure of the scholarly record. An "initial era" is identified during which initials were used in preference to full names by authors on scholarly communications. Causes of the emergence and demise of this era are considered as well as the implications of this era on research culture and practice.

  • ArticleDigital Science9 March 2023

    Symplectic at 20: Thoughts from Digital Science’s CEO

    Digital Science CEO and co-founder of Symplectic Daniel Hook reflects on why Symplectic is a special partner within the research community.

  • PaperDigital Science7 May 2020

    Contextualizing Sustainable Development Research

    This report highlights the growth in research around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We believe the SDGs are now more relevant than ever, for they provide a framework for recovery from the current pandemic. In the report we ask, if we are to have an impact agenda for research, should it not be one that is informed by the SDGs? And if so, should we not be actively measuring sustainable development as part of research evaluation?

  • ArticleThe Cambridge Executive MBA Blog7 April 2020

    Playing Cambridge Blue in a post COVID-19 world

    Daniel Hook, Executive MBA 2018 participant and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Science, explores how a game adapted from John Nash’s Prisoner’s Dilemma, can teach us about collaboration in times of crisis.

  • PaperDigital Science24 January 2019

    The Ascent of Open Access

    This report is an analysis of the Open Access landscape since the turn of the millennium. It compares the leading countries for research outputs with those producing the most Open Access papers over a 16-year period, as well as Open Access collaboration trends.

* ordered by publication date, which is not the same as when any of it was written.