AFS Roots: Mothers of Fishes

Murphy, C.; Zatkos, Lauren; Antonelli, Kelsi; Cárdenas, A. Brent; Linkem, Christina; Manning, Michael; Olivos, J. Andres; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Pollock, Amanda M.; Arisméndi, Iván

doi:10.1002/fsh.10485

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“…The inclusion of minoritized groups in collaboration networks may also benefi t from a double-blind peer review process and increased diversity of journal editors to decrease biases. Lastly, we can celebrate women in fi sheries (Murphy et al 2020 ;Zatkos et al 2020 ) to increase their visibility leading to more as role models for future generations.…”

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Fisheries Volume 46 Number 8 August 2021

2021

Fisheries

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Fisheries Volume 46 Number 8 August 2021

2021

Fisheries

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“…The inclusion of minoritized groups in collaboration networks may also benefit from a double-blind peer review process and increased diversity of journal editors to decrease biases. Lastly, we can celebrate women in fisheries (Murphy et al 2020;Zatkos et al 2020) to increase their visibility leading to more as role models for future generations.…”

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The U.S. Academic Fisheries Co‐Authorship Network Under the Lens of Diversity and Inclusion

2021

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The inclusion of diverse individuals in ecological sciences has shown little progress over the past 2 decades for various reasons, including structural barriers in societies, organizations, and academia. Collaboration networks are important for productivity, promotion, and scientific impact, yet the extent to which the structure of these networks affects the inclusion of minoritized people remains unknown. Here, we evaluated trends in published research between 1965 and 2017 within the U.S. fisheries science academic co-authorship network and evaluated its structural composition, focused on gender and race/ethnicity. Although the number of publications, number of authors per article, and lead authorship by women and people of color have increased over time, white men still lead more than 70% of published articles. Network analysis demonstrates a shift in the structure of the network over time from an initial concentration of research among a few fragmented clusters to a nearly completely connected network by 2016. However, centrality metrics for women and people of color consistently showed lower scores, suggesting that their integration into the network remains incipient. Our findings illustrate that although progress has been made towards the inclusion of diverse talent in fisheries science over time, continued progress requires strategic, explicit efforts to overcome biases and barriers.

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“…Further, bias against women has been documented in the grant review process (Tamblyn et al 2018), in the hiring process (Moss‐Racusin et al 2012), and in teaching evaluations (MacNell et al 2015). Within AFS, women represent only 25% of total membership (Penaluna et al 2017), 7% of AFS Presidents, and 13% of AFS Fellows (Murphy et al 2020). Despite gains, women remain underrepresented in fisheries science (Arismendi and Penaluna 2016), and face the same challenges as women in other scientific fields.…”

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