Science at risk? Considering the importance of academic freedom for STEM research production across 17 OECD countries

• Frank Fernandez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frankjfernandez@gmail.com

  Affiliation University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-3994

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• Volha Chykina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Yin Chun Lin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Technical and Vocational Education, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

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