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The carbon footprint of scientific visibility

hal.structure.identifierInstitut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie [IRAP]
dc.contributor.authorBERNÉ, Olivier
hal.structure.identifierUnité Mixte de Recherche Epidémiologique et de Surveillance Transport Travail Environnement [UMRESTTE UMR_T9405]
dc.contributor.authorAGIER, Lydiane
hal.structure.identifierCentre Émile Durkheim [CED]
dc.contributor.authorHARDY, Antoine
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics [LESIA]
dc.contributor.authorLELLOUCH, Emmanuel
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques [LOCEAN]
dc.contributor.authorAUMONT, Olivier
hal.structure.identifierUnité de Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées de Toulouse [MIAT INRAE]
dc.contributor.authorMARIETTE, Jérôme
hal.structure.identifierInstitut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris [iEES Paris]
dc.contributor.authorBEN-ARI, Tamara
dc.date.issued2022-10-19
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.description.abstractEnAbstract In face of global warming, academics have begun to consider and analyze the environmental and carbon footprints associated with their professional activity. Among the several sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from research activities, air travel - one of the most visible and unequal fraction of this footprint - has received much attention. Of particular interest is the question of how air travel may be related to scientific success or visibility as defined by current academic evaluation norms, notably bibliometric indicators. Existing studies, conducted over a small sample of individuals or within specific disciplines, have demonstrated that the number of citations may be related to air travel frequency, but have failed to identify a link between air-travel and publication rate or h -index. Here, using a comprehensive dataset aggregating the answers from over 6000 respondents to a survey sent to randomly selected scientists and staff across all research disciplines in France, we show that a strong publication rate and h -index are significantly associated with higher individual air travel. This relationship is robust to the inclusion of the effects of gender, career stage and disciplines. Our analysis suggests that flying is a mean for early career scientists to obtain scientific visibility, and for senior scientist to maintain this visibility.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
dc.subject.enair travel
dc.subject.enH-index
dc.subject.enacademia
dc.subject.enGHG emissions
dc.title.enThe carbon footprint of scientific visibility
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/ac9b51
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Etudes de l'environnement
bordeaux.journalEnvironmental Research Letters
bordeaux.page124008
bordeaux.volume17
bordeaux.issue12
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhalshs-03864094
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-03864094v1
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