Update on a pioneering study of the scholarly attitudes and behaviours of Gen Z researchers (Harbingers 5z)

This paper is a research update and one that will help us better research and understand the industry. To this end it reports on important changes to the Harbingers international longitudinal study of the scholarly communications of early career researchers, whose finding have been widely reported for the past decade (around a 100 articles published). It covers the set-up and early progress of a pilot project, just started, investigating the new researchers of tomorrow -Generation Z (Gen Z), the successors to the Millennials who have always been our main focus (H5z). The project also employs a new way for analysing the conversational, open interview data, which is a Harbinger hallmark and this should speed the analysis of this data considerably.