Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Academic productivity is often defined as the number of published scientific articles, citations, and grants a scientist achieves (Sarli and Carpenter, 2014).It is considered an objective metric of a researcher's impact or ability in their field (Sarli and Carpenter, 2014) and is used to rank competitors for research funding, job openings, and other competitions (Bol et al., 2018).However, systematic biases against traditionally marginalized groups (women, people with disabilities, BIPOC-black, indigenous, and people of color, people from the Global South, and 2SLGBTQIA+-two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual, and others), can impact their productivity, making the currently used academic productivity metric a biased index of scientific merit, besides also impacting the way that this productivity is evaluated.Such systematic biases are demonstrated by empirical evidence, which we discuss below.
Authors: Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas, Lilian P. Sales, Veronica Slobodian, Flávia Virginio, Shirliane de Araújo Sousa, Daniela Pareja-Mejía, Christine D. Bacon, Allen S. X. Mugarte, Iris Amati-Martins, Fernanda Dias-Silva, Olivia G. S. Araújo, Jann Nassif, Murillo Carvalho, Camila Luz, Bruno Eleres Soares, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Lucy G. Souza
Institutions: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade de Brasília, Concordia University, Instituto Butantan, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, University of Gothenburg, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Ohio University, University of Toronto Scarborough, Universidade Federal do ABC, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $325
OpenAlex ID: W4306878366