Where Are the Missing Coauthors? Authorship Practices in Participatory Research
| Autor: | Louise Fortmann, M. V. Eitzel, Margaret Perret, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Sociology of scientific knowledge Sociology and Political Science business.industry Participatory action research Citizen journalism 06 humanities and the arts Public relations 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 01 natural sciences Practice research 010601 ecology 060301 applied ethics Sociology Justice (ethics) business Engaged scholarship |
| Zdroj: | Rural Sociology. 82:713-746 |
| ISSN: | 0036-0112 |
| Popis: | Originally marginal, participatory research has become an increasingly important methodology in the social, biophysical, and interdisciplinary sciences. The overall increase in publications based on participatory research has raised questions about crediting the contributions of nonacademic collaborators. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we analyzed trends and patterns in authorship and acknowledgment practices in a sample of 262 journal articles reporting on participatory research on rural livelihoods published from 1975 to 2013. Six percent of the researchers recognized the intellectual contributions of their nonacademic collaborators with coauthorship and 51 percent with acknowledgment. Through interviews with lead authors of coauthored articles, we analyzed factors that shaped whether authorship was shared with nonacademic collaborators. Despite facing numerous barriers, researchers were motivated to coauthor in order to recognize intellectual contributions, practice research ethics, and work toward epistemic decolonization. We argue that coauthorship can be an important component of epistemic justice in participatory research and encourage participatory researchers to discuss authorship with their nonacademic collaborators as a routine component of engaged scholarship. We also note that nonacademics’ contributions to scientific knowledge need to be taken into account in understandings of the practice of science. |
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