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A weekly overview of research areas gaining momentum, built from recent papers, topic movement, and Scollr activity.

Reviewed weekly from recent paper activity, topic movement, and reader activity in Scollr.

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Remote Sensing in Agriculture Evidence window ending 2026-06-15

Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Remote Sensing in Agriculture shows 1,026 eligible recent papers and 1,024 commentary-ready papers in the current 30-day window, compared with 824 eligible papers in the prior window. The strongest evidence comes from 1 visible topic cluster and 8 representative papers.

1,026Recent 30-day eligible papers
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Evidence window ending 2026-06-15

Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers shows 2,290 eligible recent papers and 2,277 commentary-ready papers in the current 30-day window, compared with 1,094 eligible papers in the prior window. The strongest evidence comes from 1 visible topic cluster and 8 representative papers.

2,290Recent 30-day eligible papers
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Evidence window ending 2026-06-15

AI Ethics and Social Impacts

AI Ethics and Social Impacts shows 2,154 eligible recent papers and 2,152 commentary-ready papers in the current 30-day window, compared with 1,520 eligible papers in the prior window. The strongest evidence comes from 1 visible topic cluster and 8 representative papers. 1 representative paper is a preprint, so those findings should be treated as preliminary.

2,154Recent 30-day eligible papers
Machine Learning in Materials Science Evidence window ending 2026-06-15

Machine Learning in Materials Science

Machine Learning in Materials Science shows 1,486 eligible recent papers and 1,484 commentary-ready papers in the current 30-day window, compared with 1,379 eligible papers in the prior window. The strongest evidence comes from 1 visible topic cluster and 8 representative papers. 4 representative papers are preprints, so those findings should be treated as preliminary.

1,486Recent 30-day eligible papers
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Mobile Crowdsensing and CrowdsourcingOpen Access

Capturing Tacit Troubleshooting Knowledge On The Shop Floor: A Worker-Driven Internal Crowdsourcing Approach

Yannick Rank, Freimut Bodendorf

This short paper addresses the persistent challenge of tacit troubleshooting knowledge loss on the manufacturing shop floor. Existing knowledge management approaches often fail under time pressure and rarely capture the situated experiential reasoning of operators. Building on...

Journal of the Association for Information Systems - 2026

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Fetal and Pediatric Neurological DisordersOpen Access

Orientation-Aware Diffusion Super-Resolution for 3T-Like Fetal MRI from Routine 1.5T Scans.

Xinliu Zhong, Ruiying Liu, Guohao Lin

inhomogeneity limits wide adoption for routine fetal imaging. Consequently, most clinical examinations are performed at 1.5T, where greater motion tolerance comes at the cost of lower SNR, reduced gray-white matter contrast, and partial-volume blurring - factors that undermine...

PubMed - 2026

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Art, Technology, and CultureOpen Access

Hands-on Activity: Basics of Manga

Kofi Bazzell-Smith

Join Kofi Bazzell-Smith for this hands-on activity on the basics of making manga. You must register for this activity using the event app. A link to register via the app is coming soon!

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy - 2026

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Ethics and Social Impacts of AIOpen Access

Standing On The Shoulders Of Paperclips: A Taxonomy Of Human-Centered Ai Systems

Maximilian Nebel, Pauline Speckmann, Seyyid Ahmed Ciftci

Existing descriptions of AI roles in human‑AI collaboration remain inconsistent and often contradictory. For example, some define AI assistants as strictly reactive, while others attribute them with proactive behavior. To address this lack of clarity, we develop a taxonomy tha...

Journal of the Association for Information Systems - 2026

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Multi-Agent Systems and NegotiationOpen Access

Toward a Modular Architecture for Embedded AI Agent Systems at the Edge

Marcus Rüb, Michael Gerhards

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled agentic AI capable of complex reasoning and tool use; however, deploying such autonomy in pervasive computing environments remains challenging due to the strict memory and energy constraints of embedded microcontrollers. Exi...

arXiv (Cornell University) - 2026