科学领域的不平等机会:拓展我们的视野

IF 0.2 Q4 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
M. David
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科学价值通常通过研究人员的出版物数量或其他引用指标来评估。然而,这一程序被批评为有偏见、不公平,不能代表学术研究人员对科学进步的真正贡献。值得注意的是,研究发现,引文指标不利于评估女性研究人员的成就,甚至可能不利于女性在学术界的代表性。然而,人们对科学界性别差异的真正原因知之甚少。在本文中,我讨论了这些原因,并认为最近提出的有利于更平等机会的改进可能反而会产生其他不平等。我还预计,如果采用歧视性指导方针,应该考虑到其他潜在的弱势群体,并最终促进科学中的社区主义。我的结论是,科学作为一个整体,在评估科学价值时采用多维、普遍和定性的观点会有更多的收获。
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Unequal opportunities in science: expanding our perspectives
Scientific merit is commonly assessed through a researcher’s number of publications, or other citation metrics. However this procedure has been criticized as being biased, unfair and not representative of the true contribution of academic researchers to the advancement of science. Notably, citation metrics have been found to be detrimental to the assessment of female researchers’ achievement and maybe to women’s representation in academia. Yet very little is known about the real causes of differential gender representation in science. In this paper, I discuss these causes, and argue that recently proposed improvements in favour of more equal opportunities may instead generate other inequalities. I also anticipate that discriminative guidelines, if employed, should take other potentially disadvantaged communities into account and eventually promote communitarianism in science. I conclude that science as a whole has a lot more to gain by adopting a multi-dimensional, universal, and qualitative perspective when assessing scientific merit.
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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY-
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