Illuminating a Black Box of the Peer Review System: Demographics, Experiences, and Career Benefits of Associate Editors
Illuminating a Black Box of the Peer Review System: Demographics, Experiences, and Career Benefits of Associate Editors
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阐明同行评审系统的黑匣子：副主编的人口统计、经验和职业福利
DOI：
10.1002/lob.10362
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发表时间：
2020
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P. Soranno
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作者：
Kelsey L Poulson;S. Hotaling;Laura J. Falkenberg;P. Soranno
编辑通常被描述为科学出版的守门人，因为他们负责维护期刊标准，决定发表什么，并最终引导话语。担任期刊编辑的科学家可以获得职业利益，但这些利益很少被描述给早期的职业研究人员，更不用说如何为这样的角色做准备了。此外，编辑层面的差异可能会影响哪些科学家从填补这些角色中获益。为了更好地描述现任副编辑的人口统计数据和专业经验，同时强调这一职位的好处和潜在挑战，我们对湖沼学与海洋学学会期刊的副编辑进行了调查。我们的研究结果突出了编辑人才库中存在的潜在人口统计差异，包括非英语母语编辑在获得比英语母语编辑更多的同行评审经验后承担角色。我们的研究结果还突出了几个奖励沿着具有挑战性的组成部分是一个编辑。我们希望我们的研究结果可以告知早期职业研究人员他们可以采取的步骤，为编辑工作做好准备，并为科学学会提供策略，以尽量减少编辑委员会的差异。
Editors are often described as gatekeepers of scientific publishing, as they are responsible for maintaining journal standards, deciding what is published, and ultimately guiding discourse. Scientists who are journal editors gain career benefits, yet these are rarely described to early career researchers, much less how to prepare for such a role. Additionally, disparities at the editorial level could impact which scientists receive benefits of filling these roles. To better characterize the demographics and professional experiences of current associate editors, while also highlighting the benefits and potential challenges to this position, we conducted a survey of associate editors for the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography society journals. Our results highlight potential demographic disparities present in the editorial pool, including that non‐native English speaking editors assume the role after obtaining more experience serving as a peer reviewer than native English speaking editors. Our results also highlight several rewards along with challenging components of being an editor. We hope our results can inform early career researchers on steps they can take to prepare themselves for editorial work, as well as provide strategies for scientific societies to minimize editorial board disparities.