Mentorship is not co-authorship: a revisit to mentorship

Garmire, Lana X.

doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02226-6

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“…Incorporating mentorship as a promotion criterion and creating dedicated awards schemes to recognize effective mentorship (e.g., Cardel et al, 2020) are actions likely to have material benefits. We also reiterate calls in the literature (e.g., Garmire, 2021; Janasz & Sullivan, 2002; Sambunjak et al, 2010) that effective mentorship can be delivered through support networks and need not be restricted to mentor–mentee pairs.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Many respondents called for better mentorship opportunities. What constitutes an academic mentor is complex (e.g., Garmire, 2021; Sambunjak et al, 2010) but a growing body of literature stresses that inadequate mentorship is a barrier to women progressing and thriving in an academic post (Cardel et al, 2020; Casad et al, 2020; Cross et al, 2019; Gardiner et al, 2007). Marín‐Spiotta et al (2020) similarly emphasize that peer‐mentoring networks can improve intersectional support for under‐represented groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Navigating the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Alderson

Clarke

Schillereff

et al. 2022

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Section: Key Considerationssupporting

confidence: 61%

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confidence: 99%

Navigating the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Alderson

Clarke

Schillereff

et al. 2022

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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“…We also reiterate calls in the literature (e.g. Sambunjak et al, 2010;Garmire, 2021) that effective mentorship can be delivered through support networks and needn't be restricted to mentor-mentee pairs.…”

Section: Formalising and Improving Mentorshipsupporting

confidence: 51%

“…What constitutes an academic mentor is complex (e.g. Sambunjak et al, 2010;Garmire, 2021) but a growing body of literature stresses that inadequate mentorship is a barrier to women progressing and thriving in an academic post (Gardiner et al, 2007;Cross et al, 2019;Cardel et al, 2020;Casad et al, 2020 support a specific process, such as a grant application to a particular funding stream. Many departments could implement better communication processes so ECRs can identify colleagues who may be well-informed on particular grant schemes, perhaps having served as a peer reviewer or sat on an awarding panel.…”

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confidence: 99%

Traversing the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Alderson¹,

Clarke²,

Schillereff³

et al. 2022

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There is growing concern in Higher Education around job security, work-life balance and inequalities, and early career academics must make difficult trade-offs and life choices. Ample literature confirms that women navigating academia face additional challenges. Few studies have sought to connect contractual circumstances, employment priorities and their impacts on the life choices of individual academics. We report results from a survey exploring the experiences of 48 Early Career Researchers traversing the academic ladder in geomorphology and earth/environmental science and contextualise these findings by drawing on personal experiences and wider literature. Overall, we find evidence of multi-directional pressures that have materially negative effects on life choices, including concern amongst men and women that academic employment is a barrier to living where and with whom one may want to. The scale of precarity amongst survey respondents is stark in terms of years on fixed-term contracts (maximum 10), individual contracts held (maximum 14) and number of different institutions (maximum 6). Overall, women respondents opted to spend fewer years on precarious contracts, which will amplify the leaky pipeline and gender gaps at more senior levels. We also find that women put somewhat more emphasis on job security when applying for academic posts. Perceived institutional prestige was a low priority for the majority of respondents. We also find notable divergences between career advice given by more senior colleagues and the priorities of those seeking guidance. Our results furthermore infer that men were generally more satisfied by financial aspects of university employment. Drawing on input from survey respondents, we put forward a set of recommendations under four themes: improving policies on parental leave and flexible working; formalising and improving mentorship; transparency on pay and promotion; more considerate recruitment procedures. We believe these recommendations are within the scope of action by departments, laboratories and research groups.

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“…For medical-scientific publications, it is important that the mentor works in the respective field of research and can support this project through his or her knowledge and experience and, if applicable, acquired third-party funding. Although in past years authorships were often directly related to mentoring relationships [ 11 , 12 , 14 , 17 , 18 , 21 , 22 ], generalizability has recently been discussed [ 23 ]. However, it remains to be emphasized that this publication-oriented mentoring relationship cannot be equated with informal mentoring in all cases.…”

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Gender differences and cooperation in medical authorships - an analysis of the recent ten years in five key medical disciplines

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Background Career prospects in academic medicine are strongly linked to scientific authorship and this marker has been widely used as an indicator of gender equity in academia. However, direct comparisons of medical disciplines regarding their proportion of female physicians (FP) in different countries are missing. This study examines the gender parity and gender cooperation using first authorships (FA) and senior authorships (SA) of scientific publications in five medical disciplines and six different OECD countries over a 10-year time-trend. Methods Articles from three high-impact journals in each of the medical discipline radiology, urology, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics from the years 2007/8 and 2017/18 were retrospectively reviewed. The gender and affiliation location of the FA and SA of original research articles and reviews were assigned and compared with the proportion of in each discipline for the United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan. Mantel-Haenszel test and multinomial logistic regression models were used to calculate differences in proportions of women authors and FP and to assess trends and proportions of FA and SA. Results 30,803 articles were evaluated. Equally, with rising proportions of FP in all disciplines, the number of women authors increased across years. The shares of women FAs were either significantly higher (urology/surgery/gynecology) or balanced (pediatrics/radiology) compared to the proportion of FP. In contrast, the shares of women SA were balanced only in disciplines with a low proportion of FP (urology and surgery) and otherwise reduced. Women same-gender cooperation was as common as men same-gender cooperation and preferred over a women-led mixed gender cooperation in disciplines where this seemed to be practicable due to the high proportions of FP. Conclusion In contrast to FA, a significant disparity persists in SA, particularly in disciplines with a high proportion of FP. The discrepancy between FA and SA may reflect, among others, dropout from an academic career in early or mid-academic levels, for example, due to structural inequality; together with the findings on gender preference in authorship collaborations, this may inform future strategies for promoting equal career advancement for women physicians.

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Mentorship is not co-authorship: a revisit to mentorship

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Navigating the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Navigating the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Traversing the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences

Gender differences and cooperation in medical authorships - an analysis of the recent ten years in five key medical disciplines

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