🔬 New Measure Captures How Scientists Identities Shift
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: Phys.org · 1 min read · · Updated
What actually happened
Does the academic discipline of a scientist's doctorate accurately capture their disciplinary affiliation decades later? Consider a scientist who earned a doctorate in physics 25 years ago who now studies climate change, publishes primarily in interdisciplinary journals and considers herself a climate scientist. Does "physics" still accurately describe where she fits in science?
Key points
- Does the academic discipline of a scientist's doctorate accurately capture their disciplinary affiliation decades later?
- Consider a scientist who earned a doctorate in physics 25 years ago who now studies climate change, publishes primarily in interdisciplinary journals and considers herself a climate scientist.
- Does "physics" still accurately describe where she fits in science?
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