Early career researchers: Scholarly behaviour and the prospect of change |
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| Authors: | David Nicholas Anthony Watkinson Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo Jie Xu Abdullah Abrizah Marzena ?wigoń Eti Herman |
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| Institution: | 1. CIBER Research Ltd, Newbury, Berkshire, UK;2. Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, France;3. Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Leon, Spain;4. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China;5. Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;6. Wydzia? Humanistyczny, Uniwersytet Warmińsko‐Mazurski, 10‐719 Olsztyn, Poland;7. CIBER Research Ltd, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7RU, UK |
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| Abstract: | Early career researchers (ECRs) are of great interest because they are the new (and biggest) wave of researchers. They merit long and detailed investigation, and towards this end, this overarching paper provides a summary of the first‐year findings of a 3‐year, longitudinal study of 116 science and social science ECRs who have published nearly 1,200 papers and come from 7 countries and 81 universities. ECRs were interviewed in their own languages face‐to‐face, by Skype, or telephone. The study focused on the attitudes and behaviours of ECRs with respect to scholarly communications and the extent to which they are adopting new and disruptive technologies, such as social media, online communities, and Open Science. The main findings include: publishing in high‐impact factor journals is the only reputational game in town; online scholarly communities, and ResearchGate in particular, are gaining ground; social media are beginning to have an impact, especially in the dissemination arena; outreach activities have become more important; libraries are becoming increasingly invisible to ECRs; Open Science is not gaining traction; and more transformational ideas are being expressed, especially in the US and UK. |
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