Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed.
Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.1002413
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发表时间：
2016-03
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Meijaard E
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作者：
Wilson KA;Auerbach NA;Sam K;Magini AG;Moss AS;Langhans SD;Budiharta S;Terzano D;Meijaard E
《生物多样性公约》制定的目标 19 旨在改善与生物多样性相关的知识、科学基础和技术。除非保护科学领域的大量偏见得到解决，否则我们将无法实现这一目标。我们发现，世界上生物多样性最丰富的国家进行的研究相对较少，这些国家进行的科学研究往往不是由国内研究人员领导的，而且这些科学家在重要的国际论坛中的代表性也不足。减轻这些偏见需要采取广泛的解决方案：改革开放获取出版政策、加强科学传播策略、改变作者归属实践、提高国际进程中的代表性，以及加强最需要的国家的基础设施和研究人员能力。保护科学是一门旨在改善生物多样性保护实践的应用学科，因此人们可能合乎逻辑地预期大多数研究将在世界上生物多样性最丰富的国家进行。这一分析表明事实并非如此。
Target 19, set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, seeks to improve the knowledge, science base, and technologies relating to biodiversity. We will fail to achieve this target unless prolific biases in the field of conservation science are addressed. We reveal that comparatively less research is undertaken in the world’s most biodiverse countries, the science conducted in these countries is often not led by researchers based in-country, and these scientists are also underrepresented in important international fora. Mitigating these biases requires wide-ranging solutions: reforming open access publishing policies, enhancing science communication strategies, changing author attribution practices, improving representation in international processes, and strengthening infrastructure and human capacity for research in countries where it is most needed. Conservation science is an applied discipline aiming to improve biodiversity conservation practice, and one might logically expect that most research would therefore be undertaken in the world’s most biodiverse countries. This analysis reveals that it is not.