Abstract
Background and Objective
To evaluate the current hiring practices of academic institutions around the world,
with regard to the mention of advertisements for Open Science (OS) in research based,
faculty, and postdoctoral positions.
Study Design
Cross-sectional study, using 189 global institutions from the Center for Science and
Technology Leiden ranking of world universities of 2017, including the U15 Group (Canadian
Research-Intensive Universities), and five self-selected supplementary institutions.
Methods
The main outcome measure for our study is the level of OS in job advertisements, assessed
using the Modified Open Science Modular Scheme.
Results
After assessing 305 job advertisements for academic positions in 91 institutions,
only 2 (0.6%) had any explicit mention of OS in their job advertisements on the Modified
Open Science Modular Scheme. The sample assessed the level of open science for 39.0%
Associate and/or Assistant professor positions, 30.8% Researcher and/or Postdoctoral
fellow positions, and 18.7% of Tenured positions. The remaining 11.5% were for positions
such as lectureship, research associate, chair, dean, director and other.
Conclusion
This study emphasizes the need for increased recognition of OS as a characteristic
in research-active job advertisements. As evident in the alarmingly low percentage
of job advertisements that mentioned OS (0.6%), the movement towards enhanced OS profiles
across academic institutions is highly encouraged. This can be achieved through increased
recognition of OS in research job advertisements and demonstrating the means in which
institutions promote OS such as, encouraging preprints, publishing in open access
journals, and the importance of data sharing.
Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: December 08, 2021
Accepted:
December 2,
2021
Footnotes
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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