Publications
Below you will find a list containing publications written or edited by members of staff at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy.
Lists of publications for the individual members of staff at the Centre can be found in the staff profiles. The profiles are accessible via the Centre's staff list - click at the name of a member of staff and the profile will appear.
P.J.M. Horbach , S., Kalpazidou Schmidt, E., Fishberg, R. & Sørensen, M. P. (2024, Nov 12). Writing assistant, workhorse, or accelerator? How academics are using GenAI. LSE Impact Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/12/writing-assistant-workhorse-or-accelerator-how-academics-are-using-genai/
Ramos-Vielba, I. & D'Este, P. (2023). Women scientists in knowledge exchanges with nonacademic actors: participation gap and emerging gender patterns. Studies in Higher Education, 48(5), 707-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2196530
Høg Utoft, E. & Cecchini, M. (2024). ‘Without him, I probably wouldn’t be here at all’ – The micro-politics of early-career sponsorship in higher education. European Journal of Higher Education, 14(1), 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2142147
Eklund, C. M. (2020). Why do some SME's become high-growth firms? The role of employee competences. Journal of Intellectual Capital, 21(5), 691-707. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIC-07-2019-0188
Sørensen, M. P., Ravn, T. & Lambert, M. (2024). “Whoever has the most publications win”: time pressure, accelerated research processes and research integrity in contemporary academia. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4467477/v1
Losi, L. F. (2023). Who engages with science, and how? An empirical typology of Europeans’ science engagement. Public Understanding of Science, 32(6), 798-814. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231164340
Paul-Hus, A., Mongeon, P., Sainte-Marie, M. & Larivière, V. (2020). Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(2), 582-598. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00036
Vinther Christensen, M., Nieminen, M., Altenhofer, M., Tancoigne, E., Mejlgaard, N., Griessler, E. & Filacek, A. (2020). What’s in a name? Perceptions and promotion of responsible research and innovation practices across Europe. Science and Public Policy, 47(3), 360-370. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa018
Kalpazidou Schmidt, E. (2021). What is Gender-sensitive Evaluation and how can this approach support RRI sustainable transformation? https://resbiosproject.medium.com/what-is-gender-sensitive-evaluation-and-how-can-this-approach-support-rri-sustainable-3f6a76b22b2c
Støvring, H., Ekstrøm, C. T., Schneider, J. W. & Strøm, C. (2025). What is actually the emerging evidence about non-specific vaccine effects in randomized trials from the Bandim Health Project? Vaccine, 68, Article 127937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127937
Feldt, J., Horbach, S. P. J. M., Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, S. & Sarauw, L. L. (Eds.) (2024). What is academic citizenship? Journal of Praxis in Higher Education Vol. 6 No. 2 https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc.vol6.2.2024
Fuglsang, S. (2024). What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology. Public Understanding of Science, 33(5), 623-633. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231220341
Thomas, D. A. (2022, Sept 8). What does it mean to have a world-embracing vision? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-world-embracing-vision/
Braun , R., Ravn, T. & Frankus, E. (2020). What constitutes expertise in research ethics and integrity? Research Ethics, 16(1-2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016119898402
Nielsen, M. W., Baker, C. F., Brady, E., Petersen, M. B. & Andersen, J. P. (2021). Weak evidence of country- and institution-related status bias in the peer review of abstracts. eLife, 10, Article e64561. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64561
Stage, A. K., Bloch, C. W. & Falkenberg, M. L. (2023). Virkningsevaluering af Innovation Centre Denmarks aktiviteter. Dansk Center for Forskningsanalyse, Aarhus Universitet.
Schneider, J. W. & Madsen, E. B. (2022). Villumeksperimentet – dobbeltblindet fagfællebedømmelse. Forskningspolitikk, 45(2), 30-31. https://www.fpol.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Forskningspolitikk-2_2022_hires.pdf
Sørensen, M. P., P.J.M. Horbach , S., Dorofeeva, O. & Schäfer Bak, M. (2024). Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) across different Research Phases – Cases, Potential and Risks. Dansk Center for Forskningsanalyse, Aarhus Universitet.
Hosseini, M. & Horbach, S. P. J. M. (2023, May 25). Using AI in peer review. Research Professional. https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-views-of-europe-2023-5-using-ai-in-peer-review/
Díaz-Faes, A. A., Perruchas, F., Bloch, C. & D’Este, P. (2025). Unpacking the connection between funding configurations and research teams’ interdisciplinary practices. Quantitative Science Studies, 6, 834-853. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss.a.4
Stage, A. K. (2020). Universities are more than just their professors: understanding organizational transformation through staff changes. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University]. Forlaget Politica. https://politica.dk/fileadmin/politica/Dokumenter/ph.d.-afhandlinger/andreas_kjaer_stage.pdf
Horbach, S. P. J. M., Schneider, J. W. & Sainte-Marie, M. (2022). Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences. Journal of Informetrics, 16(4), Article 101332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101332
Horbach, S. P. J. M. (2023). Understanding the social and political dimensions of research (er) assessment: Interpretative flexibility and hidden criteria. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/e5uyv
Degn, L., Brøgger, K. & Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, S. (2023). Uddannelsesreformerne i Danmark i forskningspolitisk lys, del 1 og del 2. Forskningspolitikk, 2023(4). https://www.fpol.no/uddannelsesreformerne-i-danmark-i-forskningspolitisk-lys-del-1/
Degn, L., Madsen, M. & Brøgger, K. (2023). Translating Quality Criteria in University Accreditation. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 19(4), 588-602. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAOC-02-2022-0030
Thomas, D. A., Ramos-Vielba, I. & Aagaard, K. (2020). Tracing researcher 'funding configurations': Some initial approaches and challenges. (pp. 1-33). SocArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/d4tr8
Tijdink, J. K., Horbach, S. P. J. M., Nuijten, M. B. & O’Neill, G. (2021). Towards a Research Agenda for Promoting Responsible Research Practices. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 16(4), 450-460. https://doi.org/10.1177/15562646211018916
Fuglsang, S. (2024). To Love Life Is to Love Science. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University]. Forlaget Politica. https://politica.dk/fileadmin/politica/Dokumenter/Afhandlinger/simon_fuglsang.pdf
Ross-Hellauer, T., Klebel, T., Bannach-Brown, A., Horbach, S. P. J. M., Jabeen, H., Manola, N., Metodiev , T., Papageorgiou , H., Reczko , M., Sansone, S.-A., Schneider, J. W., Tijdink, J. & Vergoulis , T. (2022). TIER2: enhancing Trust, Integrity and Efficiency in Research through next-level Reproducibility. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 8, Article e98457 . https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e98457
Andersen, J. P., Horbach, S. P. J. M. & Ross-Hellauer, T. (2024). Through the secret gate: a study of member-contributed submissions in PNAS. Scientometrics, 129(9), 5673-5687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05115-y
Andersen, J. P., Horbach, S. P. J. M. & Ross-Hellauer, T. (2023). Through the Secret Gate: A Study of Member-Contributed Submissions in PNAS. https://dapp.orvium.io/deposits/643fe5935a756bb0a057c051/view
Horbach, S. P. J. M., Fishberg, R., Ulpts, S. A. & Degn, L. (2024). Thou Shalt Not! – How the institutional afterlife of research misconduct scandals shapes research integrity training. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), Article 2414500. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2414500
Horbach, S. P. J. M. (2023, Sept 26). This Peer Review Week, PLOS looks ahead to a future of cooperation and collaboration at all levels of scholarship and scholarly communications. Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/09/future-of-collaboration/
Kusk Søndergaard , M., Degn, L. & Lassesen, B. (2024). Thinking or talking about teaching? Student evaluation as an occasion for dialogue or reflection on teaching. Tertiary Education and Management, 30(2), 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-024-09140-7
Fishberg, R., Larsen, A. G. & Kropp, K. (2024). The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe. The Sociological Review, 72(5), 975-997. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231201473
Acciai, C., Holding, B. C., Madsen, E. B., Schneider, J. W. & Nielsen, M. W. (2025). The unequal dividend: gender differences in early-career researchers’ performance gains from international mobility. Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01568-z
Bernstein, M. J., Nielsen, M. W., Alnor, E., Brasil, A., Birkving, A. L., Chan, T. T., Griessler, E., de Jong, S., van de Klippe, W., Meijer, I., Yaghmaei, E., Nicolaisen, P. B., Nieminen, M., Novitzky, P. & Mejlgaard, N. (2022). The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects. Science and Engineering Ethics, 28(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3
Ravn, T. (2023). The Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of Human Stem Cell-derived Embryo Models. Abstract from TECHNODEATH. REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE REMAKING OF LIFE AND DEATH.
Schneider, J. W. & Norn, M.-T. (2023). The scientific impact of Danish research 1980-2020. https://cfa-research.au.dk/publications/2023/3/1
Høg Utoft, E. (2020). The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism by Catherine Rottenberg; Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by Sarah Banet-Weiser. Signs, 46(1), 261-266. https://doi.org/10.1086/709246
De Andrade, L. H. A., Thomas, D. A. & Laterza, V. (2023). The rise of EdTech platforms in higher education: Mapping themes from emerging critical literature. In R. Pinheiro, C. Tømte, L. Barman, L. Degn & L. Geschwind (Eds.), Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education (1 ed., pp. 27-51). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27758-0_2
Aamodt, P. O., Graversen, E. K., Hovdhaugen, E., Kalpazidou Schmidt, E., Maassen, P. & Stensaker, B. (2020). The Relationship Between External Quality Assurance and the Work of Study Programme Leaders: A Comparative Study. In Quality work in higher education: organisational and pedagogical dimensions (pp. 43-56). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-41757-4_3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41757-4_3
Hylmö , A., Steffy, K., Langfeldt, L. & Thomas, D. A. (2022). The quality landscape of economics: Beyond the Top Five. Abstract from Unsettling Research Quality, Oslo, Norway.
Ryan, T. K. (2021). The Production and Public Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge in University-Industry Projects. [PhD thesis, Aarhus University]. Forlaget Politica. https://politica.dk/fileadmin/politica/Dokumenter/Afhandlinger/thomas_kjeldager_ryan.pdf
Horbach, S. P. J. M. (2020). The Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies. Abstract from PEERE International conference on Peer Review, Valencia, Spain.
Beck, S., Bergenholtz, C., Bogers, M., Brasseur, T.-M., Conradsen, M. L., Di Marco , D., Distel, A. P., Dobusch , L., Dörler, D., Effert, A., Fecher, B., Filiou, D., Frederiksen, L., Gillier, T., Grimpe, C., Gruber, M., Haeussler, C., Heigl, F., Hoisl, K. ... Xu, S. M. (2022). The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach. Industry and Innovation, 29(2), 136-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2020.1792274
Horbach, S. P. J. M., Tijdink, J. & Bouter, L. M. (2023, Jan 10). The next frontier in open science: transparency in funding processes. Royal Society London. https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/12/transparency-in-funding-processes/
Vabø, A., Kalpazidou Schmidt, E. & Egeland, C. (2022). The internationalisation of Nordic research environments from a gender perspective. Abstract from Is Academic Mobility Gendered ? Symposium on the internationalization of research careers and its implications for equality policies at national levels. , Switzerland.
Fishberg, R. & Kropp, K. (2025). The infrastructure of interdisciplinarity for EU research: institutional configurations and collaborative practices for the SSH disciplines. Science as Culture. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2584761
