Polar Science with Global Impact?

Abstract

No one, not even those of us who sat at the center, can or will know the full outreach impact of IPY. If one remembers and trusts public reaction one can deduce that, for a short moment, IPY research and outreach worked together to put a good face on science.

Declining citation accuracy in polar research

“…To assess temporal trends in citation practices, we additionally sampled articles from four journals where we were able to access articles published over a period approaching four decades (early 1980s until 2019). The four selected journals for this part of the analyses were Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (1980Research ( -2019Polar Biology (1982-2019Polar Record (1980-2019) and Polar Research (1982-2019. Here, we selected one article per year per journal, identified as being the middle article from the first issue of each year.…”

“…Despite the range of research fields encompassed, many polar scientists identify as being part of such an interdisciplinary polar sciences community. This is perhaps best exemplified through efforts such as the very successful International Polar Year (IPY) that brought together scientists and educators to contribute to a large number of multinational projects investigating issues dealing with earth, land, people, oceans, ice, the atmosphere, space, education and outreach under a single umbrella (Carlson, 2019), and resulting in the establishment and continued successes of organisations such as the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) (Hindshaw et al, 2018).…”

Celebrating IPY Education, Outreach and Engagement – 10 years on

“…Dave Carlson was director of the International Programme Office for the IPY. In his commentary (2019, this issue), he explores the degree to which the ambitious engagement goals set by the IPY Joint Committee were achieved or can even be assessed.…”