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Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology. 送礼与积累之间：心理学中的同行评议经济。

IF 2.9 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-025-09582-2

Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner

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"We Need a CERN for AI": Organized Scientific Interests and Agenda-Setting in European Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. “我们需要一个人工智能的欧洲核子研究中心”：欧洲科学、技术和创新政策中有组织的科学兴趣和议程设置。

IF 2.9 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09568-6

Anna-Lena Rüland

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Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers. 对跨学科和跨学科研究人员的认可。

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Minerva Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-025-09578-y

Mikko Salmela, Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Kirsi Cheas

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The World Health Organization and the Struggle to Coordinate Global Health Research. 世界卫生组织和协调全球卫生研究的努力。

IF 2.9 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-025-09586-y

George Weisz

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Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952-1977. 摘要：苏联科学信息研究所（VINITI）和中央集权的承诺，1952-1977。

IF 3.2 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09545-z

Björn Hammarfelt, Johanna Dahlin

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Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces. 潜入相关性：深海研究人员如何在他们的认知生活空间中阐明社会相关性。

IF 3.2 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-025-09577-z

Sarah Rose Bieszczad, Maximilian Fochler, Sarah de Rijcke

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The EUropeanisation of Research Infrastructure Policy 研究基础设施政策的欧盟化

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09544-0

Katharina C. Cramer, Nicolas V. Rüffin

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Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level 在交付与运气之间：学术职业的项目化与博士后级别的价值观念冲突

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09541-3

Jonatan Nästesjö

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Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator 基准和学术话语的技术化：欧盟贫困或社会排斥风险综合指标案例

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Minerva Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09537-z

Marianna Zieleńska, Magdalena Wnuk

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Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities 战略官僚制：大学组织结构调整中官僚逻辑与战略管理逻辑的融合

IF 2.3 2区哲学

Minerva Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09535-1

Peter Woelert, Bjørn Stensaker

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