Authors without Borders: Investigating International Authorship Norms Among Scientists and Engineers

无国界作者：调查科学家和工程师的国际作者规范

• 批准号: 1338449
• 负责人: Dena Plemmons
• 金额: $ 29.61万
• 依托单位: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Authors; without; Borders; Investigating; International

EESE 13-38449Dena Plemmons Sigma XI Scientific Research SocietyThis project addresses the issue of authorship conflicts in scientific papers. Authorship conflicts may arise in any collaboration, domestic or international, but international collaborations pose unique challenges. It is unclear whether authorship conflicts in international collaborations arise due to normative differences, or due to individual transgressions that collaborators mistakenly interpret as cultural differences. Work done in the US suggests that differing perspectives on individualism, ownership or group responsibilities affect collaborations, but this variation has not been systematically documented. For authorship in particular, societal hierarchies and gifting practices have been indicated as potential sources of cultural differences. This information gap has implications for how scientists are trained in the responsible conduct of research. The research team, led by Dena Plemmons of San Diego State University, will deploy consistent discussion group methods across nationalities and disciplines. Twenty four small peer discussion groups will be formed. Four countries, the US, China, Brazil, and Germany, and two disciplines, neuropsychology and engineering will be represented. The small discussion groups and follow-up interviews will provide foundational data to develop a survey for wide distribution, with the ultimate goal of creating a curriculum for international authorship ethics.This research will fill an important gap in the literature on the ethics of global scientific authorship. The inclusive design of the project will provide a novel dataset of both theoretical and practical value for the survey development. It will also facilitate transparency and foster professionalism among scientific authors.

EESE 13-38449Dena Plemmons Sigma XI 科学研究协会该项目解决科学论文中的作者权冲突问题。任何国内或国际合作都可能出现作者权冲突，但国际合作带来了独特的挑战。 目前尚不清楚国际合作中的作者权冲突是由于规范差异引起的，还是由于合作者错误地解释为文化差异的个人违规行为引起的。 在美国所做的研究表明，对个人主义、所有权或团体责任的不同观点会影响合作，但这种差异尚未得到系统记录。特别是对于作者身份而言，社会等级制度和赠礼实践已被认为是文化差异的潜在根源。 这种信息差距对于科学家如何接受负责任的研究行为的培训具有影响。该研究小组由圣地亚哥州立大学的德娜·普莱蒙斯 (Dena Plemmons) 领导，将在不同国籍和学科之间部署一致的讨论小组方法。 将成立二十四个小型同行讨论小组。 美国、中国、巴西和德国四个国家以及神经心理学和工程学两个学科将派代表参加。小型讨论组和后续访谈将为开展广泛分发的调查提供基础数据，最终目标是创建国际作者伦理课程。这项研究将填补全球科学伦理文献中的一个重要空白作者身份。 该项目的包容性设计将为调查开发提供具有理论和实用价值的新颖数据集。 它还将促进透明度并培养科学作者的专业精神。