Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
Why this matters: environmental and climate reporting with long-term consequences.
Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human knowledge about climate change that has accumulated over more than a century of academic study. Cosmos is a major new resource, which has taken more than 18 months to research and build, with help and guidance from a specialist team of academics. Carbon Brief embarked on Project Cosmos to map and analyse the scientific community’s foundational knowledge about climate change. This includes, at first, ranking the most highly cited academic publications, authors and institutions. Together, this series of rankings is known as the Cosmos 500. But, over time, the database will reveal, for example, how interest in different areas of climate science has changed over time, plus identify potential knowledge gaps and, thus, opportunities for future research. The post Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science appeared first on Carbon Brief.