@article{c40016e9abd0418fa2a9edf5b4c82dea,
title = "The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers: What we already know from the internationally published literature",
abstract = "In order to take account of the impact of the pandemic on the already changing scholarly communications and work-life of early career researchers (ECRs), the 4-year long Harbingers study was extended for another two years. As a precursor to the study (featuring interviews and a questionnaire survey), currently underway, an analytic review of the pertinent literature was undertaken and its results are presented here. The review focuses on the challenges faced by ECRs and how these compare to the ones more senior researchers have to tackle. In the examination of the literature three general questions are posed: Q1) What are the identifiable and forthcoming impacts of the pandemic-induced financial pressures felt in the Higher Education sector on ECRs{\textquoteright} employment and career development prospects? Q2) What are the identifiable and forthcoming pandemic-associated disruptions in the pace/focus/direction of the research undertaking? Have any disruptions been predicted to exert an impact on ECRs{\textquoteright} research activities, and if so, with what scholarly consequences? Q3) How is the work-life of ECRs shaping up under the virus-dictated rules of the {\textquoteleft}new normal{\textquoteright} in the research undertaking? What challenges, if any, arise from the changes in practices identified, and what might their potential consequences be for ECRs? The broad conclusion of the study is that the literature leaves little room for doubt: junior researchers are already disproportionally affected by and bear the burden of the ongoing pandemic-incurred hardships and they are likely to remain similarly impacted when more trials, still unfolding, materialise.",
keywords = "Career development, Challenges, Covid-19, Early career researchers, ECR, Employment, Female researchers, Financial problems, Future, Junior researchers, Literature review, Lockdowns, New normal, Pandemic, Prospects, Restrictions, Scholarly work, Women researchers, Young scholars",
author = "Eti Herman and David Nicholas and Anthony Watkinson and Blanca Rodr{\'i}guez-Bravo and Abdullah Abrizah and Ch{\'e}rifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri and Jamali, {Hamid R.} and David Sims and Suzie Allard and Carol Tenopir and Jie Xu and Marzena {\'S}wigo{\'n} and Galina Serbina and Cannon, {Leah Parke}",
note = "Funding Information: a collaboration between researchers at Ciber?Research and the University of Tennessee 唀 and includes researchers from Tomsk? State?University, University of Malaya, Wuhan University, Universidad de Le{\'o}n¸ Charles Sturt University, University?of?Warmia? and?Mazury, Universit{\'e} de Lyon and the University of Haifa 堀 It is funded by thAel fred? P.? Sloan?Foundation. The Alfred P.? Sloan?Foundation is a philanthropic 唀 not ?for 爁褁?ofit grant 爁甁ȁ氁崁瘁倀 institution based in New York City 堀 Established in by Alfred ?ritchard ?loan Jr 堃唀 then 爁褁?esident and chief executive officer of General Motors ? the foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science 唀 technology 唀 engineering 唀 mathematics 唀 and economic performance 堀 For more information aboAultf rtehde? P.? Sloan?Foundation, visit: http://www.sloan.org. For more details on the Harbingers-2 project see http://ciber-research.com/harbingers-2 Funding Information: This paper comes from the Harbingers-2 project: Early career researchers and the pandemic: a study on changing ECRs? employment status, careers and scholarly communication behaviour and attitudes. The project represents a collaboration between researchers at Ciber Research and the University of Tennessee, and includes researchers from Tomsk State University, University of Malaya, Wuhan University, Universidad de Le?n? Charles Sturt University, University of Warmia and Mazury, Universit? de Lyon and the University of Haifa. It is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant-making institution based in New York City. Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors, the foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economic performance. For more information about the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, visit: http://www.sloan.org. For more details on the Harbingers-2 project see http://ciber-research.com/harbingers-2. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, El Profesional de la Informacion. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
day = "11",
doi = "10.3145/epi.2021.mar.08",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "1--16",
journal = "El Profesional de la Informacion",
issn = "0965-3821",
publisher = "El Profesional de la Informacion",
number = "2",
}