2026: Research Infrastructure and Institutional Governance
Research Infrastructure and Institutional Governance is a thematic institutional issue of Pollution and Diseases dedicated to the organizational, methodological, legal, informational, and cognitive structures that support interdisciplinary research.
The volume brings together institutional frameworks, laboratory charters, governance documents, research-infrastructure specifications, expert–AI scientific inquiry protocols, and related materials that define how complex scientific and applied research can be organized, documented, examined, financed, governed, and preserved over time.
Particular attention is given to project-based research structures, interdisciplinary laboratories, information systems, field research in conflict-affected environments, scientific independence, data integrity, institutional continuity, intellectual property, and the relationship between research evidence and decision support.
The volume also publishes protocols documenting the development of scientific concepts and theories within expert–AI research systems. These protocols preserve questions, hypotheses, conceptual changes, rejected alternatives, unresolved problems, and the respective roles of the human author and artificial intelligence. They are not transcripts or conventional research articles. They are citable records of how scientific knowledge was developed.
The documents published in this volume are intended to provide transparent and citable foundations for research activities and to support the development of reproducible, durable, and internationally collaborative research infrastructure.
Published:
2026-09-11