For decades, academic journals, the peer reviewed content they publish, and the metrics we use to measure their impact, have been inextricably linked to many aspects of the research ecosystem – funding, researcher careers, and institution rankings to name but a few. For these reasons, many might describe the article as the beating heart of research communities, but is that changing? Michiel Kolman speaks with Heather Staines from the MIT Futures Group to explore her vision of the future. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Research Futures report: In 2019, Elsevier and Ipsos MORI joined forces to understand how trends, from advances in technology and funding pressures to political uncertainly and population shifts, might be fueling the changes we'll see in the coming decade. The resulting large-scale, future-scoping and scenario-planning study raised many questions and sparked many conversations, some of which are touched on in this episode.