Workshop: A New Synthesis for the Science of Science

研讨会：科学的新综合

• 批准号: 2006355
• 负责人: Aaron Clauset
• 金额: $ 4.04万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2006355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; New; Synthesis; Science

The goal of this workshop is to formulate a new synthesis of the "science of science" that sets an agenda for developing and validating causal understandings of the origins of social and epistemic inequalities, and their consequences for knowledge production. New scientific knowledge comes from the collective and linked efforts of thousands of researchers working within and across disciplines. The makeup of this scientific workforce is known to shape what scientific discoveries are made, and its social structure is complex, evolving, and increasingly interdisciplinary. However, inequalities within science are both pervasive and persistent, and these appear across both the individual and organizational levels of the academy. The "new synthesis" this workshop aims to produce will help align a diverse set of research communities toward specific questions related to the causes and consequences of social and epistemic inequalities in the production of knowledge. A likely outcome of the workshop is writing a collective agenda-setting perspective piece that presents these ideas to the broader community, which will also help guide policy makers and funders as to what is known and unknown about the casual structures that limit scientific progress. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together experts from a diverse set of communities to engage specific questions of identifying, debating, and developing evidence-based policies that resolve genuine inequalities of opportunity in science, in order to increase the pace and diversity of scientific discoveries. Progress in this direction requires developing a new synthesis in the area of the "science of science," to specifically develop a causal understanding of the social, competitive, and structural factors that drive these inequalities and make them so persistent. The complex and dynamic structure of the ecosystem of scientists, organizations, and incentives has inhibited past efforts to unravel this causal structure. By convening a diverse set of accomplished scholars all studying the science of science from different perspectives, this workshop seeks to formulate a new and integrated vision for how interdisciplinary research, in combination with modern digital infrastructure (including bibliographic databases, digital censuses of fields, and the powerful tools of causal inference and machine learning), can break through the past barriers to create a genuinely scientific understanding of the scientific ecosystem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本次研讨会的目标是制定“科学的科学”的新综合，为发展和验证对社会和认知不平等的起源及其对知识生产的后果的因果理解制定议程。新的科学知识来自于数千名学科内和跨学科研究人员的集体和相互联系的努力。众所周知，这支科学队伍的构成决定了科学发现的形成，其社会结构是复杂的、不断发展的，并且越来越跨学科。然而，科学内部的不平等既普遍又持久，并且出现在学院的个人和组织层面。本次研讨会旨在产生的“新综合”将有助于使不同的研究团体协调一致，解决与知识生产中社会和认知不平等的原因和后果相关的具体问题。研讨会的一个可能结果是撰写一篇集体议程设定观点文章，向更广泛的社区展示这些想法，这也将有助于指导政策制定者和资助者了解限制科学进步的临时结构的已知和未知内容。这个跨学科研讨会将汇集来自不同群体的专家，讨论确定、辩论和制定基于证据的政策的具体问题，以解决科学中真正的机会不平等问题，以加快科学发现的步伐和多样性。在这个方向上取得进展需要在“科学的科学”领域进行新的综合，以具体地发展对推动这些不平等并使其如此持久的社会、竞争和结构因素的因果理解。科学家、组织和激励措施组成的生态系统复杂而动态的结构阻碍了过去揭开这种因果结构的努力。通过召集从不同角度研究科学的多位卓有成就的学者，本次研讨会旨在为跨学科研究如何与现代数字基础设施（包括书目数据库、领域数字普查和因果推理和机器学习的强大工具），可以突破过去的障碍，对科学生态系统建立真正的科学理解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。