Timeline for Assistant professor does not collaborate with or cite fellow department members, despite them being experts on the topic
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | guest | I agree with those who correctly got onto you for your "failure to collaborate" internally. This has all the hallmarks of an insular department with exploitation of the untenured juniors by seniors. Outrageous. You say they won't demand anything (but never specifically address co-authorship). And in fact, you're expecting CITATIONS as well as some sort of deference to show the papers internally first. Bad, bad news. | |
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1150012065710522369 | ||
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 7:07 | history | edited | lighthouse keeper | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 5:30 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 4:06 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 1:17 | comment | added | JeffE | I agree with @Buffy: It sounds like the assistant prof has no trouble collaborating, and is indeed focusing on their existing and clearly successful collaborations to optimize their publication output, as assistant profs everywhere are urged to do. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 1:16 | comment | added | JeffE | Do the more senior faculty members in the assistant professor's field regularly reach out to the assistant professor with collaboration opportunities? Do they have regular mentoring meetings, where the more senior mentors ask the assistant prof what they're working on, and suggest similar projects/directions of mutual interest, or at least point out other relevant work to reference (including their own)? Do you have regular seminars, where faculty present their ongoing work? Or do you only find out what the assistant professor is doing by reading the journals? | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 0:43 | comment | added | Anonymous3444 | No, the faculty in the department are actually quite collegial and work very well together. I don't think anyone would demand anything. It's just a sense of exclusion, which is maybe childish or a lack of communication? or no one told the asst. prof. the expectations. I guess as a dept. we just need to be mindful of the work others are doing and know the choices we make have consequences, good or bad and move on. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 0:30 | comment | added | Buffy | I'm also wondering whether these local "experts" will also demand and get co-authorship on any collaborations - will they demand primary authorship? | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 0:08 | comment | added | Anonymous3444 | Yes, aware and yes, on the committee. Not sure if we've asked why not collaborating. I'm not trying to dominate or force collaboration, just a little concerned, as we are a small profession where collaboration can improve the profession and competition does little good. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 0:02 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | Is this assistant professor aware that others in the department are experts in his/her research area(s)? Has (s)he been asked whether there are reasons for not collaborating with them? Are they likely (or even certain) to be on the tenure review committee? If so, does (s)he know this? | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | Anonymous3444 | Perhaps a different approach and discussion with this individual would be beneficial? Maybe asking "If there is anyone in the department they want to collaborate with?" would be good? Maybe they don't, and that's ok. Thank you for pointing out some critical errors in the current approach and offering a different perspective. | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | Buffy | Actually, it sounds like a domination game, not a collaborative one. You want to impose your will and your view. I think you are the one with the issue. Collaboration requires trust. Trust is earned, not demanded. | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:53 | comment | added | Anonymous3444 | I guess in our field, which is quite small. A collaborative attitude is really important. I want this faculty member to be successful and be valued as a contributing researcher. But these red flags make me worried, especially when other faculty are mad about the lack of inclusion. e.g. did research in an area that has 20+ years of research, the national expert is in our building, did not reference a single study or ask them to be included on the already published research. | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:49 | comment | added | Buffy | No, they collaborate with others. Perhaps they have a reason. Perhaps "pointed out loudly" is one of those reasons. Why should you impose "in house" collaboration? It sounds like you have a dysfunctional department, sorry. | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:46 | comment | added | Anonymous3444 | Maybe I was not clear. It's not imposing collaboration, it's the general lack of respect and teamwork from this individual. Essentially, this individual starts a research project on a topic where there are others in the department who have done research in the same exact area...and they do it in a vacuum. | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 23:07 | comment | added | Buffy | Everything about what you seem to want to do seems improper to me. Why would you want to impose your own standards of "collaboration" on someone else. It sounds un-collegial in the extreme. | |
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