International tuning of research assessment in Geosciences: Creating culture and indicators of scientific knowledge

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K21735
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Yamanaka Yasuhiro 北海道大学, 地球環境科学研究院, 教授 (40242177)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-06-28 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 知の創造 / 研究評価 / Institutional Research / 論文崇拝主義 / 地球惑星科学 / IR

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we surveyed members of the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) on "What is the value of knowledge creation?" to understand their research activities and to identify commonalities and differences in the perceptions of their respective research communities. Differences were found in that AGU members were more conscious of "giving back to society" than JpGU members (especially young researchers). A total of four union sessions were held at the JpGU and AGU annual meetings, asking the earth science community, "What is the value of knowledge creation? These results were published in the Newsletter of the Japan Geoscience Union (JGL) and at DSIR 2021, an international conference on institutional research.

Free Research Field

高等教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究者は、素朴な疑問「どのような研究が良いと思う？研究費をもらえるのはなぜ？それらへの答えはどんなきっかけで得た？」に対し、個人的な経験に基づくことはできても、研究者コミュニティーとしてのデータに基づく答えをもっていない。本研究では、その答えを得るために、日米の地球科学者に対して、アンケートを実施し、研究者から約1200件の回答を得た。社会への貢献においては、日本の方がやや低い認識を持っている一方、若手研究者では、米国研究者と同じ程度の認識を持っている(但し米国若手研究者はさらに高い認識を持っている)ことことなどが明らかになった。