Speaker
Livia Conti
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Padova)
Description
As members of the Virgo Collaboration – co-authoring observational results together with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the KAGRA Collaboration – we became aware of biased citation practices that exclude Virgo (and KAGRA) from achievements that collectively belong to the wider LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration. Here we frame these practices in the context of Merton’s “Matthew effect” applied to scientific collaborations rather than individual scientists, we quantify the occurrence of this cognitive bias, describe the positive actions that we undertook to correct it in the scientific community, and report the reactions to our efforts.
| Collaboration / Activity | Virgo Collaboration |
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Primary authors
Livia Conti
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Padova)
Pablo Barneo
(FQA-UB and ICCUB - Barcelona- Spain)
Giuseppe Cabras
(Univ Udine & INFN Trieste - Italy)
Pierre-Francois Cohadon
(LKB-ENS, ENS - Université PSL, CNRS - Paris, France)
Davide Guerra
(Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica – Universitat de València - Spain)
Edoardo Milotti
(Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste & INFN Trieste - Italy)
Jerome Novak
(Laboratoire Univers et Théories, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, France)
Agata Trovato
(Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste & INFN Trieste - Italy)
Andrea Virtuoso
(Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste & INFN Trieste - Italy)
