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Mapping Sustainability Science – Initiatives at RELX group

Picture Source: UN Photo/Cia Pak

Anders Karlsson, VP, Global Academic [email protected]

Sarah Huggett, Content and Analytics Product Manager Ludivine Allagnat, Senior Academic Relations Manager

Coralie Bos, Senior Manager Corporate Branding

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Outline

• Defining & how to measure Sustainability Science

• 3 examples‐ Sustainability science in Asia‐ Disaster Science, a recent mapping‐ Global Gender Report, soon to be launched!

• Summary


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“Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems willrequire an accelerated transition toward sustainability.

A new field of sustainability science is emerging that seeks to understand thefundamental character of interactions between nature and society and toencourage those interactions along more sustainable trajectories.Such an integrated, place‐based science will require new research strategies andinstitutional innovations to enable them especially in developing countries still separatedby deepening divides from mainstream science. Sustainability science needs to be widelydiscussed in the scientific community, reconnected to the political agenda forsustainable development, and become a major focus for research.”

Clark et. al. Science 27 April 2001

Defining Sustainability Science

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“We facilitate the exchange of information that drivesforward science and better health; reduces risk and fraudfor industry, governments and civil society; promotes therule of law and justice; and fosters communities acrossdiverse sectors. These unique contributions map to theUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),which aim to protect the planet and improve the lives ofthe world’s most vulnerable.[…]We know we can do more and in the year ahead, for thefirst time, we will set objectives for each of our uniquecontributions, and share our longer‐term vision, includingcreation of a new SDG Resource Centre to aid scientificcommunities and the public.”


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Health: A new global health program focus on information technologies and organizations directly engaged in clinical care Partnerships: AMREF, Doctors without Borders, Nurse Faculty Program.

Diversity in STM: Partnerships to advance women in science and underserved youth; Supporting interventions in the STM pipeline. Partnerships: Portia, OWSD, Gender InSITE, Scidev, Imperial College, IMC Weekend School, New York Academy of Science

Research in Developing Countries: Building stronger research ecosystems in developing countries. Partnerships: TWAS, Librarians without Borders, Research without Borders.

Piloting a Tech for Development Program: Focus on tech oriented awards in our health, diversity and research program areas.

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• Programs 2016 - 2018


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Sustainability Science in Asia

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Elsevier and SciDev.net, launch event in NY (Sep. 2015)‐ Today zooming in on Asia


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Mapping the 17 SDGs on 6 essential elements

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Mapping the science publication landscape using Scopus

Authors and affiliations

Citation information

Elsevier Scopus‐More than 21,500 titles from 5,000 publishers


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Methodology – Iterative search with Expert Feedback

• Bibliometrics

• Interviews of experts in the field to give context and commentary on the findings

Obtain the first set of keywords: fingerprints of the references of

the relevant reports

Field experts provide feedbacks based on keywords and sample

articles

Refine the list of keywords based on the feedbacks

Eric Zusman

IGES

Hideyuki Mori

IRIDeS

Takako Izumi

UNU

Kazuhiro Takeuchi

Alexander Zehnder

NTU S3 Un. Auckland

TrudyMcNaughton

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What are the common keywords for the themes?

Dignity People Prosperity

Planet Justice Partnership

Source: Elsevier Analytics, based on Scopus


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Who are the global leaders?

Source: Elsevier Scopus

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Who is leading in the Asia Pacific Region?

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Sustainability Science grows fast in Asia

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Compound Annual Growth - CAGR of publication output

World average CAGR in sustainability science = 7.6%


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Disaster Science- an infographic mapping


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Natural Disasters are a Global Phenomena

Data source: UNISDR infographic 2015 disasters in numbers

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Infographic made in collaboration with


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https://www.elsevier.com/research‐intelligence/campaigns/disastersci

Mapping research per disaster area and country

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Gender in the Global Research Landscape - stay tuned for our global report


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Report | background

1. https://www.elsevier.com/research‐intelligence/research‐initiatives/sustainability‐20152. https://www.elsevier.com/research‐intelligence/research‐initiatives/gender‐2015

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How are we able to report on the gender of authors?

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Sign up for updates: https://www.elsevier.com/promo/research‐intelligence/global‐gender?rURL=Direct

Coming soon

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Final comments• Mapping sustainability science support policy making

• Sustainability science grows fast in Asia

• Partnerships to use our knowledge to support the SDGs‐ science advisory council established ‐ a resource center to be launched‐ Elsevier Foundation programs‐ actively seeking new collaborations

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