Creative Scientists Research Articles

Mid-career pitfall of consecutive success in science.

The creativity of scientists often manifests as localized hot streaks of significant success. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of these influential phases can enhance the effectiveness of support systems and funding allocation, fostering groundbreaking discoveries worthy of accolades. Historically, analyses have suggested that hot streaks occur randomly over time. However, our research, through meticulous examination, reveals that these phases are not flatly distributed but are more frequent at the early and late stages of scientists' careers. Notably, both early and late hot streaks are marked by dense tie collaborations, with the former typically involving close partnerships with particular authors and the latter being characterized by involvement in large-scale projects compared with single-top or ordinary papers. This pattern indicates that mid-career researchers lack both intimate relations and resources to keep big projects, leading to "mid-career pitfall" of consecutive success. This insight holds profound implications for the development of policies and initiatives aimed at bolstering innovative research and discovery.

Drug delivery to and through the skin

Drug delivery technology has advanced significantly over >50 years, and has produced remarkable innovation, countless publications and conferences, and generations of talented and creative scientists. However, a critical review of the current state-of-the-art reveals that the translation of clever and sophisticated drug delivery technologies into products, which satisfy important, unmet medical needs and have been approved by the regulatory agencies, has - given the investment made in terms of time and money - been relatively limited. Here, this point of view is illustrated using a case study of technology for drug delivery into and through the skin and aims: to examine the historical development of this field and the current state-of-the-art; to understand why the translation of drug delivery technologies into products that improve clinical outcomes has been quite slow and inefficient; and to suggest how the impact of technology may be increased and the process of concept to approved product accelerated.Graphical

Finding and Developing the 21st Century Scientific Pioneer

Research on the personality of creative scientists is revisited using the Neo-Socioanalytic model of personality psychology as an organizing framework. Past research shows that creative scientists, largely from the 20th century, were distinguished by high levels of openness to experience, dominance, ambition, intelligence, and low levels of agreeableness. Contradictory findings for environmental influences highlighted the potential importance of both supportive and adverse diversifying experiences. Developmental trends also run contrary to the likelihood of scientific creativity occurring later in life, which is consistent with the life span models of creativity. Based on this review, we highlight much needed updating to the basic science of scientific creativity, including the need to test these findings in populations other than older white men, and the testing of both environmental experiences and individual differences simultaneously. An agenda for identifying and developing the 21st century creative scientist is provided.

CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY ARE KEY ELEMENTS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH: RECENT ILLUSTRATION BY THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE TO KATALIN KARIKO AND DREW WEISSMAN

For at least a century, an often-debated topic is what is of primary importance to make breakthrough in biomedical research: originality/creativity or sophisticated methods/equipment. We present here a short historical overview arguing about the importance of creativity, originality, and persistence. Namely, the best living example of this is the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Drs. Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for the invention and development of mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19. Katalin Kariko had a life-long obsession to use mRNA for cancer therapy, but when the structure of SARS-CoV-2 was announced, she shifted her interest to develop an mRNA-based vaccine against the new virus. But since the mRNA molecule is notoriously unstable and easily degraded if injected intracellularly, she teamed up with Dr. Weissman who was working on techniques to deliver mRNA molecules intracellularly. This creative teamwork with original ideas of vaccine development illustrates what other creative scientists, like Alexander Flemming, Hans Selye, Leon Popielski and James Black discovered in their fields. The sad part of the story is that only two of these scientists got the Nobel Prize.

Journal of Genius and Eminence Creating order in the mind: Borges’ paradoxical mirror

In this essay we propose, based on the ideas of L. Rapkine and J. Monod on the physical reasons for aesthetic appreciation, that the interest of creative scientists in Jorge Luis Borges’ works is produced by an apparently contradictory effect: on the one hand, the serenity that these texts induce in the mind of an innovative person and, on the other, the modification of the cognitive balance that causes the complexity of these texts and that operates as a creative force. We illustrate this idea with the specific case of the story “Blue Tigers”. We show that this text by Borges, in a reader who is sensitive to it, injects information that puts the mind in a state far from the level of cognitive equilibrium. When it comes to solving a scientific problem, the search for new ways to solve the problem is enhanced by this condition in which the cognitive balance is cancelled. That is the condition in which the creation of new ideas seems possible.

Accelerating Research and Development in the US Arctic Reflections on a NOAA Program

Since 2015, the Innovative Technology for Arctic Exploration (ITAE) program has supported maritime technology development that contributes to economic growth, ocean health, and ocean management in Alaska. The program does this in multiple ways: through public-private partnerships, platform and small-scale sensor design, and research to operations, commercialization, and application of science-driven technologies. ITAE is a high-risk, high-reward research collaborative that provides support and expertise for creative scientists pursuing highly innovative research solutions with the potential for broad impact in US Arctic marine sciences. This program is funded through NOAA to support projects that may be overlooked in the traditional peer-review process because of their inherent risk. However, not all risks lead to success, not every risk leads to failure, and not all failures eliminate success. Development and growth are nurtured by risk and temporary setbacks. The science advanced by these researchers and collaborators forges new paths of discovery. While the Arctic is an excellent testbed, in part, due to its extreme conditions, the technologies and lessons detailed here are transferable to oceanographic research outside of the Arctic. This paper reviews the program as well as the successes and failures of this dedicated Arctic innovation collaborative at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

Exploring Korean scientists’ perceptions of scientific creativity and education for scientific creativity

ABSTRACT Creativity is considered a key element of the scientific infrastructure and a driving force of scientific advancement. This study aims to present Korean scientists’ voices regarding scientific creativity by investigating their perceptions of scientific creativity and education for it. Extending the phenomenography lens through activity theory, we interviewed eleven scientists in various science research fields and investigated the structural features of the situations that influenced their perceptions. The results show that scientists’ perceptions of scientific creativity were developed by the different epistemic cultures in their research fields. In addition, their perceptions of education for scientific creativity centred on the accumulation of resources to generate novel and valuable ideas and the facilitation of open discussion on knowledge construction. We discuss their perceptions of creativity in the context of their research fields’ epistemic cultures and the design of science education for scientific creativity. We conclude by discussing the implications of this study for developing science education to cultivate creative scientists.

Dignified working conditions for scientists – on e of the priority directions of state policy in the field of science

Problem setting. The transition to an innovative model of economic development of the country is impossible without creating conditions for safe, high-quality, efficient work with decent pay in various sectors of the economy, which contributes to the realization of human potential. The development of the latter is decisive for the further fate of the economic, political, social, spiritual spheres of life in Ukraine and the creation of conditions for its transition to an innovative model of the state system. The implementation of the Concept of Decent Work at all levels is a complex mechanism for solving the accumulated problems in the social and labor sphere of the country. Today, this is especially true of the scientific field related to intellectual activity. Target of research. Research of problematic issues of legal regulation of relations in the scientific sphere on decent working conditions for scientists and identification of ways to solve them. Analysis of recent researches and publications. The issue of decent work in Ukraine is to some extent covered in the scientific works of such scientists as LP Amelicheva, AV Vasylyk, L. Yu. Velychko, OO Gerasimenko, OD Gostyuk, O V. Zhadan, VV Zhernakov, Yu. Ivchuk, AM Kolot, TA Kolyada, SG Rudakova and others. At the same time, to date, there are no relevant comprehensive studies in the available scientific literature to ensure decent work of such subjects of labor law as scientists, as well as the legal mechanism for appropriate provision. Article’s main body. According to the Concept of the State Target Program for the Development of Research Infrastructures in Ukraine for the period up to 2026, approved by the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of April 14, 2021 № 322-r. One of the problems that needs to be solved is the unsatisfactory condition of the material and technical base of research infrastructures, the lack of decent working conditions for scientists and comfortable premises for their work. The scientific potential of human resources in Ukraine is high enough for research. At the same time, with the low level of material and technical base of scientific institutions and higher education institutions, the number of researchers in Ukraine has almost halved in recent years. The most active, creative scientists continue to leave the scientific sphere. Although scientific personnel and knowledge are fundamental factors in the sustainable development of scientific and technical potential of the state. Conclusions and prospects for the development. It is noted that the existence of the problems considered in the article is due not only to insufficient funding for science, although, of course, the economic factor is one of the main, but also imperfect legislation, lack of research infrastructure, lack of career opportunities, weak interaction with business, lack of government policies aimed at supporting the promotion of science and a number of other factors, which leads to the fact that scientists are forced to either go abroad to work or leave science altogether. The expediency of developing a strategy and program to overcome the problems of decent work in the scientific field is indicated. In particular, it is proposed to develop and approve the Concept of implementation of criteria of decent work in the scientific sphere, which will promote the formation of an ideological “human-centric prism”, through which all processes to improve what is happening today. Its main tasks should be: to determine the most important principles and strategic directions of the legal mechanism for ensuring decent work of Ukrainian scientists; improving the legislation in terms of creating and ensuring the functioning of the legal mechanism to ensure decent work of scientists in Ukraine; prevention of negative socioeconomic consequences related to the functioning of the legal mechanism for ensuring decent work of Ukrainian scientists.

Beatrice Mintz (1921-2022): an innovator in embryo research and cancer biology

Beatrice Mintz (1921-2022): an innovator in embryo research and cancer biology

Freedom of scientific creativity

In the article, the author considers the scientific work of a scientist as a complex multifaceted phenomenon aimed at expanding human knowledge of the world. High achievements in science, which have the criteria of value and novelty, are possible due to the creation of a comfortable environment for the researcher, including access to information resources, technologies, a friendly atmosphere in research teams, qualified personnel, and external funding. The author highlights the main historical stages in the development of the scientific worldview, including periods of “withering away of law”, party and ideological attitudes, the impact of which had a negative impact on the freedom of scientific creativity of scientists in our country. Formulated the prerequisites and conditions for ensuring the freedom of scientific creativity, which can be achieved not only due to the personal abilities of a scientist, but also by highlighting new areas of research in the field of human rights, Economic Law, and modern methods of organizing the work of scientific teams. The participation of scientists in the fulfillment of state orders, in particular the work on the text of the Constitution of 1977, testified not only to the unification of the efforts of the state and science aimed at the development of the country, but was of particular importance for the manifestation of the scientific potential of scientists.

The darkest microbiome-a post-human biosphere.

SummaryMicrobial technology is exceptional among human activities and endeavours in its range of applications that benefit humanity, even exceeding those of chemistry. What is more, microbial technologists are among the most creative scientists, and the scope of the field continuously expands as new ideas and applications emerge. Notwithstanding this diversity of applications, given the dire predictions for the fate of the surface biosphere as a result of current trajectories of global warming, the future of microbial biotechnology research must have a single purpose, namely to help secure the future of life on Earth. Everything else will, by comparison, be irrelevant. Crucially, microbes themselves play pivotal roles in climate (Cavicchioli et al., Nature Revs Microbiol 17: 569–586, 2019). To enable realization of their full potential in humanity’s effort to survive, development of new and transformative global warming‐relevant technologies must become the lynchpin of microbial biotechnology research and development. As a consequence, microbial biotechnologists must consider constraining their usual degree of freedom, and re‐orienting their focus towards planetary‐biosphere exigences. And they must actively seek alliances and synergies with others to get the job done as fast as humanly possible; they need to enthusiastically embrace and join the global effort, subordinating where necessary individual aspirations to the common good (the amazing speed with which new COVID‐19 diagnostics and vaccines were developed and implemented demonstrates what is possible given creativity, singleness of purpose and funding). In terms of priorities, some will be obvious, others less so, with some only becoming revealed after dedicated effort yields new insights/opens new vistas. We therefore refrain from developing a priority list here. Rather, we consider what is likely to happen to the Earth’s biosphere if we (and the rest of humanity) fail to rescue it. We do so with the aim of galvanizing the formulation and implementation of strategic and financial science policy decisions that will maximally stimulate the development of relevant new microbial technologies, and maximally exploit available technologies, to repair existing environmental damage and mitigate against future deterioration.

The Language of Creativity: Validating Linguistic Analysis to Assess Creative Scientists and Artists.

The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to be among the first attempts to validate linguistic analysis as a method of creativity assessment and second, to differentiate between individuals in varying scientific and artistic creativity levels using personality language patterns. Creativity is most commonly assessed through methods such as questionnaires and specific tasks, the validity of which can be weakened by scorer or experimenter error, subjective and response biases, and self-knowledge constraints. Linguistic analysis may provide researchers with an automatic, objective method of assessing creativity, and free from human error and bias. The current study used 419 creativity text samples from a wide range of creative individuals mostly in science (and some in the arts and humanities) to investigate whether linguistic analysis can, in fact, distinguish between creativity levels and creativity domains using creativity dictionaries and personality dimension language patterns, from the linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) text analysis program. Creative individuals tended to use more words on the creativity keyword dictionaries as well as more introversion and openness to experience language pattern words than less creative individuals. Regarding creativity domains, eminent scientists used fewer introversion, and openness to experience language pattern words than eminent artists. Text analysis through LIWC was able to partially distinguish between the three creativity levels, in some cases, and the two creativity domains (science and art). These findings lend support to the use of linguistic analysis as a partially valid assessment of scientific and artistic creative achievement.

Developmental Histories Facilitating the Emergence of Creative Scientific Expertise: The Role of Developed Cognitive Talents, Education, and Social and Cultural Contexts.

Understanding how individual and contextual factors collectively contribute to the developmental histories that facilitate the emergence of creative expertise in science is improved by considering the contribution of the broad structure of developed cognitive abilities to creativity, prospective research on the high achieving or gifted students who may choose careers in and end up as creative scientists later in life, as well as retrospective studies of established creative scientists themselves and what their educational histories reveal. We first review and elaborate on these connections as documented in research which explore the development of talent, including cognitive mechanisms that include math and spatial reasoning and science related educational opportunities. We propose a research thought experiment that utilizes the multi-trait, multi-method matrix, and bifactor modeling to help understand the true overlap between measurement structures of cognitive and creative aptitudes. Then we explore the social and cultural contexts that may facilitate and/or hinder creative solutions in science through the lens of how these ecosystems influence talent development for gifted students and also the production of elite scientists. Based on this review, some policies will be suggested that may enhance the development of scientific creativity and broader societal innovation and expand the pipeline to include and fully develop the talents of disadvantaged students and provide nurturing environments to improve the likelihood of the emergence of scientific creative expertise.

Mythological References of Greek and Latin Doublets and Terminology

The investigation of the process of establishing the Greco-Latin doublets implies the presence of mythological sources, which offer elucidations from the origin and are important in their semantic-functional design. In this article, we propose the analysis of the Greek-Latin doublet < lat. umbilicus, i, m and < gr. omphalos, es, f „umbilical” (national and international dimensions), a representative doublet in medical terminology, but also modestly productive. Each of the components of the doublet requires personalized investigations (diachronic, synchronic aspects): the Latin component is included in the fundamental vocabulary of the Romanian languages (national terminology); Greek component – in the mass of vocabulary (international terminology). Neological lexical creations (formed on the basis of Greco-Latin doublets) correspond to a universal dimension of the conscious creativity of scientists and denominate specialized medical knowledge.

STUDENT, PARENT AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS ON THE BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE STUDENTS' SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY

Teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of scientific creativity are assumed to be an important environmental factor for scientific creativity, so this research surveyed their perceptions of the behavioral characteristics of scientific creativity and compared their perceptions to those of students. This is achieved with a list of behavioral characteristics of creative physicists during their growth period. For this survey, 48 science teachers, 112 parents, and 145 science gifted students participated. Out of the 30 items of the list, they selected 10 items that were considered important indicators to become creative scientists in the future, and they ranked them according to their importance. The results showed that the three groups all perceived ‘conducting experiments, asking questions, thinking logically to solve difficult problems, and sharing ideas’ as important for scientific creativity. For the items that were perceived to be less important, it was discussed why these items might be necessary for scientific creativity. Comparative result showed that parents gave more importance to learning-related aspects, teachers to thinking-related aspects, and students to activities such as making and experimenting. This research showed the behavioral characteristics that should be encouraged to improve students’ scientific creativity at school and at home. Keywords: behavioral characteristics, creativity perception, creative environment, scientific creativity

Preface: Modern Heterocycle Synthesis and Functionalization

obtained his PhD degree in 2008 with the late Professor Keith Fagnou at the University of Ottawa in Canada as an NSERC Doctoral Fellow. He then joined Merck Research Laboratories at Merck-Frosst in Montreal in 2007, making key contributions to the discovery of Doravirine (MK-1439) for which he received a Merck Special Achievement Award. In 2010, he moved from Quebec to New Jersey, where he has served in roles of increasing responsibility with Merck ever since. L.-C. is currently Executive Director and the Head of Process Chemistry and Discovery Process Chemistry organizations, leading a team of smart creative scientists developing innovative chemistry solutions in support of all discovery, pre-clinical and clinical active pharmaceutical ingredient deliveries for the entire Merck portfolio for small-molecule therapeutics. Over his tenure at Merck, L.-C. and his team have made important contributions to >40 clinical candidates and 4 commercial products to date. Tom Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a ­Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently the Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry.

Humanitarian journals of Russia in the grip of international network structures

The paper deals with the problem of network dependence of Russian news magazines and the actual dictates of international network structures (Scopus, WOS, etc.) that set their own requirements for their content and quality. The latter influence not only the scientific rating of journals, but also the publishing policy of their publications. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the rules of the game imposed by them have been adopted by the country's state authorities and, first of all, by the Ministry of science and higher education of the Russian Federation, which has tightened the requirements for reports of scientific and educational institutions, as well as researchers and teachers, including mandatory publications in Scopus and other international databases. Despite the efforts made by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the leadership of higher education institutions, Russian science was dependent on these structures, which began to determine the directions and priorities of its development, including selecting the subject and language of journal publications. All this is a direct violation of the constitutional norms of the Russian state and the right to freedom of scientific creativity of scientists. The scientific community of Russia is faced with the task of protecting the interests of journal editors and protecting the right of authors to Express their own scientific position and the ability to present publications in their native language.

Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists by Laura Otis

Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists by Laura Otis

Using citations correctly in wildlife literature

Using citations correctly in wildlife literature

معوقات البحث العلمي فى كليات السياحة والفنادق: دراسة حالة على كلية السياحة والفنادق جامعة المنصورة

Scientific research in institutions of higher education requires a clear scientific strategy andapplicable and before that a supportive political administration. Its believes in the importance ofscientific research in the progress and development of countries and societies, it also needsqualified academic and academic departments and is carried out by creative scientists in theirfields, aware of the conditions of their countries and their needs, they are able to investigateeverything that is new and ask questions and receive answers. The observer for the status ofscientific research in Egypt notes that there are many obstacles and difficulties that hinderscientific research and limit its performance to its expected role which led to the delay of theprocess of development and progress. The study aimed at studying the obstacles of scientificresearch in the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels. To achieve this goal, 100 survey forms weredistributed on the sample of the research and 88 forms were analyzed by using Spss program, Theresults found that the university did not allocate budgets to carry out scientific research inappropriate ways, Lack of cooperation from the staff in the institutions assigned to the field partfor fear of being questioned if they cooperated with the researcher without the approval of theirsupervisors in the work, the supervisor does not have sufficient time to supervise and follow upthe thesis. The research recommends activating the role of libraries in faculties and equippingthem with an internet network connected to the global data network to facilitate researchers inobtaining periodicals and scientific researches, as well as the need to contain the number ofconferences and scientific meetings, electronically and Paper to facilitate the follow-up of