EGU2020-16812
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16812
EGU General Assembly 2020
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How efficient are Early Career Scientists in peer-review activities?

Mathieu Casado1,2, Gwenaëlle Gremion2,3, Kelsey Aho2,4, Jilda Caccavo1,2,5, Nicolas Champollion2,6, Emily Choy2,7, Rahul Dey2,8, Alfonso Fernandez2,9, Gerlis Fugmann1,2, Juan Höfer2,10, Shridar Jawak2,11, Kyle Mayers2,12, Sarah Maes2,13, Jhon Fredy Mojica2,14, Martine Lizotte2,15, Prashant Pandit2,16, Paul Rosenbaum2,17, Elisa Seyboth2,18, Sarah Shakil2,19, and Maud van Soest2,20
Mathieu Casado et al.
  • 1Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany (mathieu.casado@awi.de)
  • 2Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, D-14473, Germany
  • 3Institut des Sciences de la Mer, UQAR, Rimouski, G5L3A1, Canada
  • 4Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC RESEARCH CENTER, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340, USA
  • 5Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, D-14195, Germany
  • 6Université Grenoble Alpes, l’Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement,Grenoble 38 058, France
  • 7McGill University, Quebec, Canada H9X 3V9
  • 8National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India
  • 9Dept. of Geography, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  • 10Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.
  • 11Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), Svalbard Forskningspark, P.O. Box 156, N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
  • 12NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Nygårdsgaten 112, 5006, Bergen, Norway
  • 13KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
  • 14Center for global Sea Level Change, New York University Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • 15Dept. of Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6
  • 16TERI University, New Delhi, India
  • 17Dept. of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75313, Sweden
  • 18Universidade Federal do Rio Grande,Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
  • 19Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Alberta,Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada
  • 20Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

In our collective endeavour towards global sustainability, there is now a broad appreciation that producing scientifically robust knowledge requires new forms of engagement between scientists, stakeholders and society. But what is the role of Early Career Scientists (ECS) in these processes that are closing the gap between science and policy? Because opportunities to interact with more experienced peers through science refereeing are scarce, the role of ECS in the peer-review process remains minor despite ECS possessing strong academic credentials. Such engagement in the peer-review process represents a valuable opportunity for ECS and the scientific community as a whole. This opportunity provides a robust platform for ECS to understand the overall review process and editorial activities related to high-credibility publications such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). During May/November 2018, 174 ECS on behalf of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) reviewed the first and second-order drafts of the IPCC “Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere and in a Changing Climate (SROCC)”. Here, we present the methodology, results, and lessons learned from these group reviews. Altogether, data from participant surveys on their experience and their comments catalog illustrate ECS as competent reviewers, comparable to more experienced researchers. The diverse disciplines and geographic perspectives, fostered through APECS and its partners, are currently being mobilized in the First Order Draft of the Working Groups I and II of the Assessment Report 6 of the IPCC, and will continue during the second round of reviews of these reports in early 2020. Information gathered during these ongoing reviews will add to the findings obtained during the review of the SROCC.

How to cite: Casado, M., Gremion, G., Aho, K., Caccavo, J., Champollion, N., Choy, E., Dey, R., Fernandez, A., Fugmann, G., Höfer, J., Jawak, S., Mayers, K., Maes, S., Mojica, J. F., Lizotte, M., Pandit, P., Rosenbaum, P., Seyboth, E., Shakil, S., and van Soest, M.: How efficient are Early Career Scientists in peer-review activities? , EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-16812, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16812, 2020

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