Ivory Towers of Entitlement?: The Commercialisation of Academic Palaeontologists

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI:10.55468/gc325
J. Liston
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Abstract

Palaeontology suffers from divisions amongst its community, along an ostensibly motivational division between academic and commercial palaeontologists, the former not being motivated financially, unlike the latter. These divisions are particularly polarised in the United States of America. In order to discuss why this attitude exists, even when the financial division is no longer so clear, two factors are addressed: 1, latent entitlement attitudes inherent in the academic culture; 2, the commercialisation of academic palaeontology through the incentivisation of publishing, using the Chinese experience of scientific publishing as a microcosm for palaeontology globally. These factors are then dealt with as underpinning patterns of unethical - and sometimes even illegal - behaviour by academic palaeontologists.
权利的象牙塔?学术古生物学家的商业化
古生物学在其群体中存在着分歧,学术古生物学家和商业古生物学家之间存在着表面上的动机分歧,前者不像后者那样有经济动机。这些分歧在美利坚合众国尤其两极分化。为了讨论为什么这种态度存在,即使在财政划分不再如此明确的情况下,两个因素被解决:1,潜在的权利态度固有的学术文化;2、通过出版激励实现学术古生物学的商业化,将中国科学出版的经验作为全球古生物学的一个缩影。然后,这些因素被学术古生物学家视为不道德——有时甚至是非法——行为的基础模式。
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