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EarlyStagePublication Strategies– willtheywork?

Practicing ResearchIntegrity,November2nd,2018

LoneBredahlJensen,BertilF.Dorch&CharlotteWien

TheSpeaker

Relieving negativepressure?Self-reflecting onpublication practices inthecontext ofResearchIntegrity§ Focuspoint:

EarlycareerPublication Strategiesinthecontext ofteachingResponsibleConduct ofResearch

§ Questions:TowhatextenddoPhDstudents1)followformulatedstrategies,and2)whatcharacterizesstrategiesthatareimplemented– incontrasttothosethatarenot?

§ Case:Publication strategies fromPhD studentswho followed amandatoryRCRcourse atSDU/HEALTH


Case:PhD course onRCR§ MandatoryRCRcourses forallPhDstudentsat

SDUsince 2014:- 2ETCS,12hoursintheclassroomintotal

§ Four modules concluded withreflective essays:- ”Prepare apublication strategy”

§ Currently approx.200studentsperyear§ Fouryears ofexperienceanddata…§ Development:OpenandCitizenScience


Theoretical Framework§DavidKolbs’theoryonexperientiallearning(ELT)(1984)§Widelyusedandacceptedtheory§Verypracticalandhands-onoriented§Applicableinmanydifferentcontexts§ Easilyoperationalized§Usefulforassessinglearningprocesses§Andperson-jobinteraction

Learningshouldcombineexperienceandreflection


2nddimension

1stdimension


1.Experience

2.Classroom

3.Assignment

4.Publishing


IdentifyingabandonedstrategiesAll(51)PhDpublicationstrategies from2014• Onlystrategies containing:

ORCID,target journal(s),title ofarticle(s), #ofarticlesÞ 25strategies selected foranalysis

• Authoridentified inPURE:Nopublications º abandonned strategyPublications notrelated tostrategyº abandoned strategyÞ Biasesintroduced:$ ORCID,registrationinPURE(all)


MatchingstrategiesandpracticeIdentifying matchesbetween betweenstrategyandpublications• Studentspublications looked upinPURE/WoS:

Suggested authors,Titlewords,Targetjournal,SubjectConsideronlypeerreviewedarticles(forsimplicity,goodapproximationinmedicine)

Indepth qualitative text analysis (tobecompleted)• Towhatdegree tothestrategy was followed?• Arethereareas where studentsfollow moreclosely their initialstategy

than others?


Preliminaryresults• Outof25strategies,3wereabandoned becauseofaclearchange of

career pathorplain poorquality(thestudentnothavingtakenthetaskseriously)

• 22strategies reflected amoreorless precise implementation

• OnePhD studentfollowed thestrategycompletely(100percentcompliance)

• Moststrategiesdeviate wrt. target journaland/ororiginal title.


Conclusions thisfar..• Thevast majority ofstrategies are traceableinstudents’subsequent

publication practices

• Mostdeviationsare intermsoftarget journal andtitles

• Indicates tousthatthereflections ofthestudentsinpractise (theabstractconceptualisation)following theRCRcourse isuseful

• Futurework:• Indepth qualitative text analysis andextended sampleofstrategiesto

lateryearsandotherPhDSchools /topics• Considernon-peerreviewedoutput,publicoutreach,DMP’s,peer

reviewpractices,CitizenScience practices etc.


Early StagePublication Strategies

LoneBredahlJensen,BertilF.Dorch,CharlotteWien


”Plansare worthless,butplanning iseverything”(D.D.Eisenhower,November14,1957)

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