Altman Micah, Cohen Philip N
Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2022 Jan 31;6:751553. doi: 10.3389/frma.2021.751553. eCollection 2021.
The scholarly knowledge ecosystem presents an outstanding exemplar of the challenges of understanding, improving, and governing information ecosystems at scale. This article draws upon significant reports on aspects of the ecosystem to characterize the most important research challenges and promising potential approaches. The focus of this review article is the fundamental scientific research challenges related to developing a better understanding of the scholarly knowledge ecosystem. Across a range of disciplines, we identify reports that are conceived broadly, published recently, and written collectively. We extract the critical research questions, summarize these using quantitative text analysis, and use this quantitative analysis to inform a qualitative synthesis. Three broad themes emerge from this analysis: the need for multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination, for mixed methods analysis at multiple levels, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Further, we draw attention to an emerging consensus that scientific research in this area should by a set of core human values.
学术知识生态系统是理解、改善和大规模管理信息生态系统所面临挑战的一个杰出典范。本文借鉴了关于该生态系统各方面的重要报告，以描述最重要的研究挑战和有前景的潜在方法。这篇综述文章的重点是与更好地理解学术知识生态系统相关的基础科学研究挑战。在一系列学科中，我们识别出那些构思广泛、近期发表且为集体撰写的报告。我们提取关键研究问题，使用定量文本分析对其进行总结，并利用这种定量分析为定性综合提供信息。该分析产生了三个广泛的主题：多部门合作与协调的必要性、多层次混合方法分析的必要性以及跨学科合作的必要性。此外，我们提请注意一个新出现的共识，即该领域的科学研究应以一套核心人类价值观为指导。
