Terms of Inclusion: Mapping the concepts used to describe bias in the research lifecycle
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2024-06
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While conducting research about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) and research impact, I have found that there is a great deal of literature in a variety of disciplines about citation bias and other types of bias in the research lifecycle. I define bias in the research lifecycle as bias based on gender, ethnicity, country of origin, institution, language, etc., that affects the participation or experience of that group, such as bias in peer review, citation bias and/or citational justice, bias in grant evaluation, or editorial board composition. Building off of my previous work which found that few ARL libraries include resources addressing this topic in their research impact resource guides, I am currently working on a project to build a toolkit to help other research impact librarians begin to incorporate this information into their resource guides.
One part of the project is a literature review that will be used to develop a framework to describe bias in the research lifecycle, in general, and specifically, proposed methods of mitigation of the bias, including the actions that other disciplines suggest that libraries can take to address this issue. For this proposal, I will map the concepts and terminology used in the title and abstracts of articles discussing bias in the research lifecycle during a ten-year time span, 2013-2023. I will be using VosViewer and Tableau to create visualizations for this proposal. The resulting analysis will be used to shed light on the ways that other researchers are discussing this topic and contribute to the development of the framework for the toolkit.
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Research Impact, Bias in the research lifecycle, Diversity Equity Inclusion and Justice
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Craft-Morgan, Sheila. Terms of Inclusion: Mapping the concepts used to describe bias in the research lifecycle. BRIC Conference. 2024. Presentation in Vancouver, Canada.