论文标题
COVID-19对天文学的影响:两年
Impact of COVID-19 on Astronomy: Two Years In
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论文摘要
我们使用天文出版物的公共记录研究了Covid-19-19-19大流行对天文学的影响。我们表明,Covid-19对天文学研究产生了积极和负面影响。我们发现,通过年度纸质计数来衡量的该领域的整体产出有所增加。这主要是由于大多数国家看到的提高个人生产力的驱动,这可能是科学界在Covid期间科学界的文化和技术变化的结果。但是,在我们研究的大多数国家 /地区都会看到大量新的新研究人员的数量减少,这表明新研究人员进入该领域的障碍或初级研究人员在Covid期间完成了第一个项目。不幸的是,女性天文学家同样共享该领域的生产率的总体提高。按比例,女性撰写的论文更少,而在大多数国家 /地区,新的研究人员中有更少的妇女撰写的论文。即使女性天文学家在共同过程中也提高了生产力,但改善水平也比男性小。荷兰,澳大利亚,瑞士的前杂种,女性天文学家比男性同事同样或更具生产力。在Covid期间,没有一个国家的女性天文学家能够平均比男性同事更具生产力。
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on astronomy using public records of astronomical publications. We show that COVID-19 has had both positive and negative impacts on research in astronomy. We find that the overall output of the field, measured by the yearly paper count, has increased. This is mainly driven by boosted individual productivity seen across most countries, possibly the result of cultural and technological changes in the scientific community during COVID. However, a decreasing number of incoming new researchers is seen in most of the countries we studied, indicating larger barriers for new researchers to enter the field or for junior researchers to complete their first project during COVID. Unfortunately, the overall improvement in productivity seen in the field is not equally shared by female astronomers. By fraction, fewer papers are written by women and fewer women are among incoming new researchers in most countries. Even though female astronomers also became more productive during COVID, the level of improvement is smaller than for men. Pre-COVID, female astronomers in the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland were equally as or even more productive than their male colleagues. During COVID, no single country's female astronomers were able to be more productive than their male colleagues on average.