Wildlife professionals' and graduate students' perceptions regarding scientific publishing

IF 1.5 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 Environmental Science

Wildlife Society Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI:10.1002/wsb.1486

Lauren A. Hernandez‐Rubio, Richard M. Kaminski, Christopher K. Williams

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Abstract Within academia and research, publishing peer‐reviewed articles is expected for dissemination of knowledge and is used as a measure of professional performance. However, few papers have been published on professionals' and graduate students' perceptions of student publication performance, how professionals encourage student publishing, and what types of publication barriers exist for graduate students to publish. In 2019, we emailed a survey to professional and student attendees of the 2013 and 2016 North American Duck symposia as a representative cadre of waterfowl and wildlife biologists. We surveyed 469 professionals and 98 students who attended the symposia. Response rates were 42% and 45% for professionals and students, respectively, and deemed reliable as response rates approached 50%. Fifty percent and 69% of professional respondents indicated they felt frustration motivating their Ph.D. and M.S. students to publish, respectively. Of strategies used to motivate graduate student publishing, 79% of students ranked providing congenial encouragement most effective, while 60% of professionals ranked playing a major role in drafting and editing as most effective. Both professionals and students considered lack of time during and outside work hours as barriers to publishing graduate work. Professionals and students agreed that asking students to sign a contract at time of their initial matriculation may be an effective strategy to publish. Information from this study adds to knowledge on graduate student publishing practices and can be used to improve methods to increase graduate student publication rates in wildlife science and conservation. Similar surveys can be conducted face‐to‐face or remotely at international wildlife and other ecological conferences to broaden application of our results. We encourage students to generate publications from their research by writing separate thesis/dissertation chapters to expedite the publication process.

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野生动物专业人员和研究生对科学出版的看法

在学术界和研究领域，发表同行评议的文章是为了传播知识，并被用作衡量专业表现的一种手段。然而，关于专业人士和研究生对学生发表表现的看法、专业人士如何鼓励学生发表以及研究生发表存在哪些类型的发表障碍等方面的论文很少发表。2019年，我们作为水禽和野生动物生物学家的代表干部，通过电子邮件向2013年和2016年北美鸭子研讨会的专业和学生与会者发送了一份调查。我们调查了参加座谈会的469名专业人士和98名学生。专业人员和学生的回复率分别为42%和45%，当回复率接近50%时被认为是可靠的。50%和69%的专业受访者表示，他们分别对激励博士生和硕士学生发表论文感到沮丧。在用于激励研究生出版的策略中，79%的学生认为提供亲切的鼓励是最有效的，而60%的专业人士认为在起草和编辑中发挥主要作用是最有效的。专业人士和学生都认为，在工作时间内外缺乏时间是发表研究生作品的障碍。专业人士和学生们一致认为，让学生在入学之初签署一份合同可能是一种有效的出版策略。本研究的信息增加了对研究生出版实践的认识，并可用于改进提高野生动物科学与保护研究生出版率的方法。类似的调查可以在国际野生动物和其他生态会议上面对面或远程进行，以扩大我们的结果的应用范围。我们鼓励学生通过撰写单独的论文/论文章节来从他们的研究中产生出版物，以加快出版过程。

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Wildlife Society Bulletin BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

13.30%

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期刊介绍： The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a journal for wildlife practitioners that effectively integrates cutting edge science with management and conservation, and also covers important policy issues, particularly those that focus on the integration of science and policy. Wildlife Society Bulletin includes articles on contemporary wildlife management and conservation, education, administration, law enforcement, and review articles on the philosophy and history of wildlife management and conservation. This includes: Reports on practices designed to achieve wildlife management or conservation goals. Presentation of new techniques or evaluation of techniques for studying or managing wildlife. Retrospective analyses of wildlife management and conservation programs, including the reasons for success or failure. Analyses or reports of wildlife policies, regulations, education, administration, law enforcement. Review articles on the philosophy and history of wildlife management and conservation. as well as other pertinent topics that are deemed more appropriate for the Wildlife Society Bulletin than for The Journal of Wildlife Management. Book reviews that focus on applied research, policy or wildlife management and conservation.