Science, Technology and Information Policy

Interdisciplinary knowledge integration in public affairs scholarship: An empirical analysis of the contributions of public administration, policy sciences, and nonprofit studies

Journal of Public Affairs Education

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and her colleague analyze nearly a million journal citations to compare how public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies integrate interdisciplinary knowledge, finding distinct patterns shaped by each field’s origins and practices.

Collections for the Public Good: A Case Study from Ohio

Diversity

2025

Daniel Kelley offer some answers as to why natural history collections, and specifically geological collections, are important and relevant to society today and to the future of humankind. Authors offer perspective on the ways that geological collections will continue to benefit society at large by providing some illustrative historical examples.

Public Administration Review

2025

Esra Gules-Guctas and colleagues demonstrate how algorithmic decision-making systems used in public benefits determinations can produce outcomes that fail to comply with legal requirements when statutory rules are improperly implemented in code, often due to flawed data, poor design choices, or inherent system limitations.

Implementation Science Communications

2024

Amanda Girth, Rebecca Smith and colleagues analyze the implementation of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), finding that collaboration strategies like leadership support, staff co-location, and third-party resource support influence program fidelity depending on local context.

Implementation Science

2024

Amanda Girth and colleagues examine the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START), identifying seven cross-system collaboration strategies that strengthen staffing, service access, and case planning for families facing child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet

Journal of Urban Food Systems Governance

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, proposes a critical framework for urban food governance, emphasizing five interconnected principles, time, place, relationships, diversity and power, to guide just and sustainable outcomes in urban food systems.

China shows science is not dependent on liberal democracy

LSE Impact Blog

2024

The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation. Caroline S. Wagner suggests that at least in the case of China, science depends more on state capacities, a situation which may in turn have an impact on the current composition of global science.

19th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI) 2023 Editorial

Scientometrics

2024

Caroline Wagner served as a conference organizer for the 2023 conference on International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and as co-editor of the special issue of Scientometrics containing the top papers from the conference.

The Trap of Securitizing Science

Issues in Science and Technology

2024

In response to China’s rise, Western governments are acting to limit scientific collaboration—but these measures will not increase economic competitiveness and could inhibit the practice of science itself.

Ashley Orr