1、Confidence in research:researchers in the spotlightSupported by Economist Impact 2022Confidence in research:researchers in the spotlight2Contents2 About this report5 Foreword by Elsevier7 Executive Summary8 Key findings10 Key takeaways and areas for action13 Introduction16 Research methodology18 Fin

2、dings19 The impacts of the pandemic:exacerbating existing inequality and misinformation concerns31 Conducting research in public view:a more public-facing researcher39 Confidence boost:supporting researchers to take on a more public role 47 Key takeaways and areas for action49 Addressing misinformat

3、ion51 Building public trust and understanding53 Preparing researchers for a public-facing role56 Tackling inequality58 Technical Appendix A:Research Methodology and Approach72 Technical Appendix B:Full list of survey questions82 References Economist Impact 2022Confidence in research:researchers in t

4、he spotlight3About the ResearchConfidence in research:researchers in the spotlight is an Economist Impact report,supported by Elsevier.In the report,Economist Impact explores the attitudes of scientists,scholars and researchers from now on referred to primarily as researchers on how the pandemic has

5、 affected the practice of undertaking and communicating research in the face of increased public scrutiny.The pandemic underscored the vital importance of public trust in research.The starting point for our research is that public trust in science and research depends,in part,on whether the research

6、 community itself is confident in its ability to produce high quality and relevant research.This requires not only analysis of how the support and incentive structures for the research community are viewed as a whole,but also the skills that researchers need to navigate a new,more public-facing land