Scientists who engage with society perform better academically
By Pablo Jensen, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Pablo R Kreimer, Yves Croissant. 2008
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Most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called ‘ivory tower’ of academic research through popularization, industrial collaboration or teaching. However, little is known about the actual openness of scientific institutions and how their proclaimed priorities translate into concrete measures. This paper gives an idea of some actual practices by studying three key points: the proportion of researchers who are active in wider dissemination, the academic productivity of these scientists, and the institutional recognition of their wider dissemination activities in terms of their careers. We analyze extensive data about the academic production, career recognition and teaching or public/industrial outreach of several thousand of scientists, from many disciplines, from France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. We find that, contrary to what is often suggested, scientists active in wider dissemination are also more active academically. However, their dissemination activities have almost no impact (positive or negative) on their careers. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability
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- Academic staff and public communication: a survey of popular science publishing across 13 countries (2011, background): “Moreover, Jensen et al. (2008) argue that media engagements are driven by an external demand and invitations are generally received by a small group of highly visible scientists.”
- Scientific Outreach: Toward Effective Public Engagement with Biological Science (2014, background): “Although most scientists agree that interacting with the public is a worthwhile endeavor (Davies 2008), overall participation rates remain lower among life scientists than among those in other science disciplines (Jensen et al. 2008, Jensen 2011).”