Enhancing Climate Change Research With Open Science

Tai, Travis C.; Robinson, James P. W.

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2018.00115

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“…A handful of studies have looked specifically at the effect OA has on whether the news media report on the scholarly literature. One study looked specifically at climate change research and found that for articles published from 2007 to 2016, OA articles were more likely than paywalled articles to receive a news mention, although paywalled articles received the most news mentions (Tai & Robinson, 2018). The study did not specify which type of OA articles it focused on.…”

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All the research that’s fit to print: Open access and the news media

Schultz

2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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The goal of the open access (OA) movement is to help everyone access the scholarly research, not just those who can afford to. However, most studies looking at whether OA has met this goal have focused on whether other scholars are making use of OA research. Few have considered how the broader public, including the news media, uses OA research. This study sought to answer whether the news media mentions OA articles more or less than paywalled articles by looking at articles published from 2010 through 2018 in journals across all four quartiles of the Journal Impact Factor using data obtained through Altmetric.com and the Web of Science. Gold, green and hybrid OA articles all had a positive correlation with the number of news mentions received. News mentions for OA articles did see a dip in 2018, although they remained higher than those for paywalled articles. Peer Review https://publons.com/publon/10.1162/qss_a_00139

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All the research that’s fit to print: Open access and the news media

Schultz

2021

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“…The open access (OA) and open science (OS) movement is also believed to assist fast communication of academic research to the public, and consequently an increased level of public interest and policy engagement on climate change issues (Zuccala, 2010;Tai & Robinson, 2018). By adopting open science (OS) principles, including open access, scientists may advance climate change research, especially in developing regions of the world where research capacity is limited (Tai & Robinson, 2018). OA climate change research can also have a greater societal impact when studies are communicated to both academic and non-academic audiences via mainstream news and social media (Wang et al, 2015;Tai & Robinson, 2018).…”

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“…By adopting open science (OS) principles, including open access, scientists may advance climate change research, especially in developing regions of the world where research capacity is limited (Tai & Robinson, 2018). OA climate change research can also have a greater societal impact when studies are communicated to both academic and non-academic audiences via mainstream news and social media (Wang et al, 2015;Tai & Robinson, 2018). Nevertheless, problems such as OA publishing costs and a lack of transparency regarding publication fees have been raised (Jahn & Tullney, 2016).…”

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News media attention in Climate Action: latent topics and open access

Dehdarirad

Karlsson

2021

Scientometrics

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In this study we investigated whether open access could assist the broader dissemination of scientific research in Climate Action (Sustainable Development Goal 13) via news outlets. We did this by comparing (i) the share of open and non-open access documents in different Climate Action topics, and their news counts, and (ii) the mean of news counts for open access and non-open access documents. The data set of this study comprised 70,206 articles and reviews in Sustainable Development Goal 13, published during 2014–2018, retrieved from SciVal. The number of news mentions for each document was obtained from Altmetrics Details Page API using their DOIs, whereas the open access statuses were obtained using Unpaywall.org. The analysis in this paper was done using a combination of (Latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modelling, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. The covariates included in the regression analysis were features related to authors, country, journal, institution, funding, readability, news source category and topic. Using topic modelling, we identified 10 topics, with topics 4 (meteorology) [21%], 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation) [18%] and 8 (ecosystems and biodiversity) [14%] accounting for 53% of the research in Sustainable Development Goal 13. Additionally, the results of regression analysis showed that while keeping all the variables constant in the model, open access papers in Climate Action had a news count advantage (8.8%) in comparison to non-open access papers. Our findings also showed that while a higher share of open access documents in topics such as topic 9 (Human vulnerability to risks) might not assist with its broader dissemination, in some others such as topic 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation), even a lower share of open access documents might accelerate its broad communication via news outlets.

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“…Adopting a multidisciplinary approach has been recently recognized in partnerships aiming to achieve the cross-disciplinary United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals [9]. Yet despite a call for global shift towards open science and the benefits imbedded [10], data identification, access, and sharing continue to be a challenge throughout the world [11].…”

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“…However, such information is often underutilized because it is scattered and held by different institutions or stakeholders, not standardized, and either not readily found nor widely accessible [6,8,15]. Metadata is particularly useful for developing nations with limited research capacity [11] and where data exist but are perceived to be limited or unavailable [16].…”

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A metadata approach to evaluate the state of ocean knowledge: Strengths, limitations, and application to Mexico

Palacios‐Abrantes¹,

Cisneros‐Montemayor²,

Cisneros-Mata³

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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Climate change, mismanaged resource extraction, and pollution are reshaping global marine ecosystems with direct consequences on human societies. Sustainable ocean development requires knowledge and data across disciplines, scales and knowledge types. Although several disciplines are generating large amounts of data on marine socio-ecological systems, such information is often underutilized due to fragmentation across institutions or stakeholders, limited standardization across scale, time or disciplines, and the fact that information is often not searchable within existing databases. Compiling metadata, the information which describes existing sets of data, is an effective tool that can address these challenges, particularly when metadata corresponding to multiple datasets can be combined to integrate, organize and classify multidisciplinary data. Here, using Mexico as a case study, we describe the compilation and analysis of a metadatabase of ocean knowledge that aims to improve access to information, facilitate multidisciplinary data sharing and integration, and foster collaboration among stakeholders. We also evaluate the knowledge trends and gaps for informing ocean management. Analysis of the metadatabase highlights that past and current research in Mexico focuses strongly on ecology and fisheries, with biological data more consistent over time and space compared to data on human dimensions. Regional imbalances in available information were also evident, with most available information corresponding to the Gulf of California, Campeche Bank and Caribbean and less available for the central and south Pacific and the western Gulf of Mexico. Despite existing knowledge gaps in Mexico and elsewhere, we argue that systematic efforts such as this can often reveal an abundance of information for decision-makers to develop policies that meet key commitments on ocean sustainability. Surmounting current cross-scale social and ecological challenges for sustainability requires transdisciplinary approaches. Metadatabases are critical tools to make efficient use of existing data, highlight and address strengths and deficiencies, and develop scenarios to inform policies for managing complex marine social-ecological systems.

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Enhancing Climate Change Research With Open Science

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 publications

All the research that’s fit to print: Open access and the news media

All the research that’s fit to print: Open access and the news media

News media attention in Climate Action: latent topics and open access

A metadata approach to evaluate the state of ocean knowledge: Strengths, limitations, and application to Mexico

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