The authors examine the evolution of board game authorship between 1845 and 1984, based on an analysis of a corpus of more than thirty-seven hundred games from the University Sorbonne Paris North's Fonds Patrimonialdu Jeu de Société, a board game collection of more than fifteen thousand titles. Overall, they show that game authors have rarely…

Sometimes we hear music (when we play it or hear it, whether live or recorded) and that experience is felt as a singular event. In those moments we find ourselves in an existential situation that, because it is singular (rare, unique, unintended), reveals the formative power of an aesthetic experience of listening to music, what we might call…

Given Wikipedia's breadth of coverage, social impact, and longevity as an impactful open knowledge resource, the encyclopedia has been the subject of considerable interdisciplinary research. Building on scholarship related to collaboration, authorship, ownership, and editing in Wikipedia, this study sought to better understand Wikipedians as…

This study aims to provide an overview of the distribution of the Spanish scientific workforce focusing on differences in authorship position by gender, academic age, number of authors, and research field. The results show some degree of parity in younger age cohorts and areas such as biomedicine, but little participation of females in the oldest…

Over the past three decades, attention restoration theory (ART) has been widely applied in restorative environments research, providing a framework for examining human-environment relationships. Much of the research on ART has emphasized the role of the environment in restorative experiences and the recovery of attentional fatigue. However, less…

This study presents a scientometric analysis of personalized learning research from 2020 to 2024. Using the Lens database, 4,463 scholarly articles were analyzed to identify key trends and patterns in this rapidly evolving field. The analysis revealed consistent publication growth over the 5 years, with journal articles dominating as the primary…

Kazakhstan, a post-Soviet country that began transitioning its research system from the Soviet model to a Western one, instituted an EU-like, meritocracy-based rewards system for publishing between 2009 and 2012. This resulted in a sharp rise in the number of publications between 2012 and 2020. To complement existing studies, Scopus and Web of…

Most, if not all, journals require the use of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, to be acknowledged. This article argues that current guidelines do not go far enough as the use of an LLM may be acknowledged but the reviewers, and future readers, do not know which parts of the article were generated with AI (Artificial Intelligence)…

In our study, we analyzed 147 contemporary realistic fiction children's and young adult books that feature characters with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We compared these representations with current statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For each book, we examined the character demographics, the main character, the…

The article presents a narrative analysis on two autobiographies by women writers diagnosed with autism as adults. We analyse the issues related to neurodivergent identity development, masking, and educational trajectory combining performativity theory and cultural psychology. The analysis highlights three main themes: the early life challenges;…

This article interrogates the ethics of the author-reviewer-editor relationship in academic publishing. In the first part of the article, I draw on experiences as author, reviewer, and editor to question why so much learning about the publishing process seemingly occurs through trial and error rather than through mentorship. In the second part of…

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education has revolutionised academic research and teaching, offered transformative opportunities while raising significant ethical challenges. This Delphi study investigates the ethical dilemmas and institutional requirements for maintaining academic integrity in AI-driven…

This column is intended to address the kinds of knotty problems and dilemmas with which many scholars grapple in studying health professions education. In this article, the authors address the question of co-first authorship bearing in mind the why, when and how of this consideration as well as the potential consequences. This guidance should help…

The Cochrane Rapid Review Methods Group (RRMG) first released interim guidance in March 2020 to support authors in conducting rapid reviews (RRs). The objective of this mixed-methods study was to assess the adherence and investigate authors' understanding of the RRMG guidance. We identified all documents citing the Interim Cochrane RRMG guidance…

It is aimed to reveal the current state in the field of Germanistics on a global scale in this study. In this direction, the Scopus database was searched for the publications in the field of Germanistics, and the publications related to the relevant literature between the years 2018-2022 were examined with bibliometric analysis. The vast majority…