Growth Of Scientists Research Articles

Challenges and opportunities in the creative productivity of scientists and the demographic composition of science

The article confidently explores the broadening of the demographic contingent of science. Since the end of the twentieth century, the problems of attracting the younger generation to science, studying international cooperation of scientists and migration patterns in science have become relevant issues. Also important are the issues of the influence of interdisciplinary education on obtaining breakthrough scientific results, determining the impact of the favorable scientific environment on the productive work of a scientist, the problems of inclusiveness of the scientific environment and the expansion of racial and ethnic representation in science. It is shown that although academic mobility of scientists is globally viewed as a process of internationalization of science, which contributes to the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and ideas, and the growth of scientists' productivity. However, given that in certain contexts mobility is associated with the loss of human resources in science, it should be viewed as a complex political problem of attracting and retaining scientists. This problem is exacerbated in times of military conflicts and socio-political crises. It is emphasized that despite the usefulness of scientists using the benefits of Open Science and participating in international research projects, attention should be paid to national and regional problems that require scientific support.

Symbiosis Evolution of Science Communication Ecosystem Based on Social Media: A Lotka–Volterra Model-Based Simulation

Social media has become an important way for science communication. Some scholars have examined how to help scientists engage with social media from operational training, policy guidance, and social media services improving. The main contribution of this study is to construct a symbiosis evolution model of science communication ecosystem (SCE) between scientists and social media platforms based on the symbiosis theory and the Lotka–Volterra model to discuss the evolution of their symbiotic patterns and population size under different symbiosis coefficients. The results indicate that (1) the size of the symbiosis coefficients determines the equilibrium outcome of the symbiosis evolution of scientists and social media platforms; (2) scientists and social media platforms can promote each other’s population size under the mutualism pattern, which can achieve sustainable science communication; (3) “1 + 1 > 2” effect can only be achieved under the symmetric mutualism pattern and the growth of scientists and social media platforms is more stable and sufficient than that of other patterns. The findings will provide additional perspectives for promoting the sustainable development of science communication based on social media.

Protesting Scientists

Disrupting Science . Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. By Kelly Moore . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 325 pp. $35, £19.95. ISBN 9780691113524. Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. The author examines the postwar growth of scientists' activism against the bonds that linked U.S. science to the military and governmental power.