TY - GEN
T1 - The Scholarly Age—Beyond the Academic Age Using Techno-Scientific, Knowledge Appropriation and Mentoring Outputs
AU - Cortés, Julián D.
AU - Robinson-García, Nicolás
AU - Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida
AU - Ramírez-Cajiao, María Catalina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Various aspects of academic careers are studied using academic age as a proxy for the chronological age. The limitation of this metric is that it does not consider a wide range of scientific workforce outputs, since it only focuses on scientific publications. This study aims to extend understanding of the scientific workforce by amplifying the computation of academic age to include the scholarly age which considers different knowledge outputs from scientific publications. Using data from Colciencias/Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation's national research group assessments in Colombia, we analyzed 1,318,799 unique products from 1990–2020. We computed four typologies of scholarly age based on four products classes: new knowledge; technological development and innovation; social appropriation of knowledge and dissemination of science; and training human resources. The Shapiro-Wilk test shows a non-normal distribution of scholarly ages. The median scholarly age of social appropriation of knowledge and dissemination of science was 8 years; training human resources 7 years; new knowledge 5 years; and technological development and innovation 1 year. Statistically significant differences and large effect size, η2=.27, were found between all scholarly age typologies through Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc Dunn tests. It reveals that estimating a researcher's expertise based on scientific publication alone is a partial and different proxy compared to the diverse spectrum of scholarly activities and further know-how researchers may possess.
AB - Various aspects of academic careers are studied using academic age as a proxy for the chronological age. The limitation of this metric is that it does not consider a wide range of scientific workforce outputs, since it only focuses on scientific publications. This study aims to extend understanding of the scientific workforce by amplifying the computation of academic age to include the scholarly age which considers different knowledge outputs from scientific publications. Using data from Colciencias/Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation's national research group assessments in Colombia, we analyzed 1,318,799 unique products from 1990–2020. We computed four typologies of scholarly age based on four products classes: new knowledge; technological development and innovation; social appropriation of knowledge and dissemination of science; and training human resources. The Shapiro-Wilk test shows a non-normal distribution of scholarly ages. The median scholarly age of social appropriation of knowledge and dissemination of science was 8 years; training human resources 7 years; new knowledge 5 years; and technological development and innovation 1 year. Statistically significant differences and large effect size, η2=.27, were found between all scholarly age typologies through Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc Dunn tests. It reveals that estimating a researcher's expertise based on scientific publication alone is a partial and different proxy compared to the diverse spectrum of scholarly activities and further know-how researchers may possess.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-57850-2_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-57850-2_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85192211460
SN - 9783031578496
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 321
EP - 330
BT - Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win - 19th International Conference, iConference 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Sserwanga, Isaac
A2 - Joho, Hideo
A2 - Ma, Jie
A2 - Hansen, Preben
A2 - Wu, Dan
A2 - Koizumi, Masanori
A2 - Gilliland, Anne J.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 19th International Conference on Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win, iConference 2024
Y2 - 15 April 2024 through 26 April 2024
ER -