Globafricalisation and Sustainable Development: Research and Researchers’ Assessments, ‘Publish or Perish’, Journal Impact Factor and Other Metrifications

Atolani, O.; Adeyemi, Olufemi; Agunbiade, Foluso O.; Asaolu, O.S.; Gayawan, Ezra; Jaiyeola, Temitope Gbolahan; Usikalu, M.R.; Unuabonah, Emmanuel I.

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“…At least part of the sentiment that demand from 'above' is lacking is related to the way 'excellence' in academia continues to be defined by peer-reviewed academic publications (Atolani et al 2019; Génova and de la Vara 2019; Jarvis et al 2020). Overall, there was a sense that this definition overlooks the wealth of knowledge and experience needed for TTCIs, and that it is mismatched with the kind of unorthodox thinking that leads to transformational solutions.…”

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Transdisciplinary transformative change: an analysis of some best practices and barriers, and the potential of critical social science in getting us there

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Biodiversity experts now widely acknowledge that transformative change is best supported through transdisciplinary collaborations. Yet, such collaborations rarely successfully occur in major biodiversity research institutions and those that do rarely achieve the paradigmatic effects they aim to deliver. To gain some insight into this global phenomenon, we surveyed Swiss-based researchers and non-academic stakeholders addressing global change and biodiversity. In this article, we connect our findings to global patterns in transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives (TTCIs) and heuristically divide collaboration barriers into two categories: lack of resources and lack of vital functional elements. Two of the major themes that emerged from this research were the continued difficulties with (1) establishing a common ‘language’, understanding, and goals, and (2) meaningful pluralization of knowledge in transdisciplinary collaborations aimed at addressing global change and biodiversity loss. The former is widely cited in the literature as contributing to the failure of TTCIs in the form of incoherent problem-framing, while the latter is often identified as contributing to the lack of structural transformative change (e.g., paradigmatic shifts) in completed initiatives. Another major theme reflected in TTCI literature was limited time. Moreover, based on our own extensive inter- and transdisciplinary experience, we agree with other experts that there is a persistent lack of understanding of the potential contributions of critical social science (CSS) to TTCIs. We thus argue that enhancing resource availability for TTCIs, especially tools for improving CSS literacy, could save time and support both problem-framing alignment and delivery of the structural/paradigmatic changes we aspire to.

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“…4.1.1 Demand from 'above'Although key Swiss governmental and funding bodies, such as the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) are beginning to emphasize TTCIs for addressing sustainability problems, many participants felt that current demand is insu cient. Others have highlighted similar patterns in international funding schemes, noting that recognition of the need for transdisciplinarity is not enough(Papp et al, 2022, Rocha et al, 2020.At least part of this sentiment is related to the way 'excellence' in academia continues to be de ned by peer-reviewed academic publications(Atolani et al, 2019; widely accepted Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has offered alternative assessment criteria since 2012. However, uptake by major funding bodies has been slow, with the EU only signing in November 2022 and the US National Science Foundation yet to do so.…”

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Transdisciplinary transformative change: An analysis of some best practices and barriers and the role of critical social science in getting us there

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Biodiversity experts now widely acknowledge that transformative change is best supported through transdisciplinary collaborations. Yet, such collaborations rarely successfully occur in major biodiversity research institutions and those that do rarely achieve the paradigmatic effects they aim to deliver. To gain some insight into this global phenomenon, we surveyed Swiss-based researchers, transdisciplinary collaborators, and other stakeholders addressing global change and biodiversity. In this article, we connect our findings to global patterns in transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives (TTCIs) and heuristically divide collaboration barriers into two categories: lack of resources and lack of vital functional elements. Two of the major themes that emerged from this research were the continued difficulties with 1) establishing a common ‘language’, understanding, and goals, and 2) meaningful pluralization of knowledge in transdisciplinary collaborations aimed at addressing global change and biodiversity loss. The former is widely cited in the literature as contributing to the failure of TTCIs in the form of incoherent problem-framing, while the latter is often identified as contributing to the lack of structural transformative change (e.g., paradigmatic shifts) in completed initiatives. Another major theme reflected in TTCI literature was limited time. Moreover, based on our own extensive inter- and transdisciplinary experience, we agree with other experts that there is a persistent lack of understanding of the potential contributions of critical social science (CSS) to TTCIs. We thus argue that enhancing resource availability for TTCIs, especially tools for improving CSS literacy, could save time and support both problem-framing alignment and delivery of the structural/paradigmatic changes we aspire to.

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Globafricalisation and Sustainable Development: Research and Researchers’ Assessments, ‘Publish or Perish’, Journal Impact Factor and Other Metrifications

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Transdisciplinary transformative change: an analysis of some best practices and barriers, and the potential of critical social science in getting us there

Transdisciplinary transformative change: an analysis of some best practices and barriers, and the potential of critical social science in getting us there

Transdisciplinary transformative change: An analysis of some best practices and barriers and the role of critical social science in getting us there

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