Nanomaterials are becoming important materials in several fields and industries thanks to
their very reduced size and shape-related features. Scientists think that nanoparticles and …

“Grand challenges” are complex problems with far-reaching societal implications that lack a
clear solution. To make progress, diverse communities often coalesce around an ambitious …

To investigate how participants shape a field's social and symbolic boundaries over time, I
conducted an in-depth longitudinal study of five core and peripheral communities in the …

The study sets the stage by outlining the growing significance of digital platforms in Afghan
media and the transformative potential of emerging technologies in this landscape. The …

Organizing for interdisciplinary research must overcome two challenges to collaboration: the
cognitive incommensurability of knowledge and the political economy of research based in …

As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have
emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of …

Nanotechnology is a burning field of scientific interest for researchers in current era. Diverse
plant materials are considered as potential tool in green chemistry based technologies for …

Crowdfunding is a novel mechanism for garnering monetary support from the online public,
and increasingly it is being used to fund science. This article reports a small-scale study …

Although innovation diffusion is a central topic in policy and strategy, its measurement
remains difficult–particularly in cases where the innovation is a complex and possibly …

The 2012 Menlo Report was an effort in which a group of computer scientists, US
government funders, and lawyers produced ethics guidelines for research in information and …