Research communication in the climate crisis: Open letters and the mobilization of information

In the thesis Graminius (2023), via five articles and an introductory summary chapter (kappa), investigates scholars' 1 engagement in the climate crisis through the use of open letters.Open letters constitute a genre that, as far as I know, has not been the subject of previous researchat least not from a library and information science (LIS)/scholarly communication perspective.Graminius thus enters an unexplored territory and she clears the land.Three research questions guide the thesis (p.21): RQ1): What does climate scholars' engagement in open letters contribute to understandings of research communication? 1 Like Graminius I will switch between using the terms scholars and researchers in this text.Pharo: Research communication in the climate crisis (book review) RQ2): In which ways do researchers intend to make information matter (mobilize information) through their open letter communication practices?RQ3): How, and in which ways, does open letter communication come to shape, reshape and affirm researchers' professional identities?Further, the thesis addresses five specific problems (p.22), each of which are allocated an individual article: