Image Credit: Dworkin, J., Zurn, P., & Bassett, D. S. (2020). (In)citing Action to Realize an Equitable Future. Neuron, 106(6), 890–894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.011
Reflection:
How might using the tools suggested by these authors to right citational imbalances and bias: diversity statements, imbalance softwares, and future research across journal impact factors, succeed or fail to address the root of the problem in citation?
"If citations direct the trajectory of scientific discovery, shaping the very formulation of our research questions, then an imbalance in citations is an imbalance in whose questions get heard, repeated, investigated, and ultimately answered. Citation imbalances bias the research itself."
Credit: Zurn, P., Bassett, D. S., & Rust, N. C. (2020). The Citation Diversity Statement: A Practice of Transparency, A Way of Life. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(9), 669–672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.009
1. How citational justice fits into your personal ethics.
2. The approach you used to uplift and cite specific research questions, researchers, and methodologies in your work. OR, each citation is a decision involving some form of bias. How did you assess and adjust your decisions in order to more meaningfully engage with citational justice?
3. Limitations to your approach, and areas for growth.