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am_Unition  ·  1258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A question about publishing journal articles in China (kinda, sorta)

    ... a PhD student from East China Normal University is interested in including the paper in a meta-analysis on employee silence.

I'm sorry, this is one of the strangest sentences I've read, lately. Is this person presenting themselves as genuinely interested in combating workplace issues that (to me) seem diametrically opposed to facets of state-encouraged mainstream Chinese culture? And they want to do it on the record? Hopefully I'm wrong in my perception of how individual dissent, whistle blowing, and accountability of power are treated in China. Surely it's complicated.

I've personally known Chinese researchers who have flagrantly circumvented the established process of attributing credit where credit was due, and my field has nothing to do with sociology or psychology. It would worry me even more to have that in the mix.

Don't you live in China? If you don't, I will have less qualms about this. Be advised that I rate myself very high on the scale of "how paranoid I am of China's government infiltrating their scientific communities and tech industries". Like an 8.3 out of 10.

I dunno, I'd take a while to attempt researching this person's publishing history and possible influences. If you're inside the great firewall, not sure if that'll go well. Hopefully I'm wrong about your physical location.

This response is at least a little funny, coming from an American researcher, for sure. It's a luxury that my field has yet to see politicization, for the most part. I worry about many other disciplines.