Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

comité scientifique

English translation:

Advisory Panel

Added to glossary by John Holland
Dec 13, 2012 15:52
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French term

comité scientifique

French to English Social Sciences Philosophy
membre du comité scientifique de la comité scientifique de la revue internationale XXX

This is from the CV of a Philosophy professor. An English translation with "science" or "scientific" wouldn't do because philosophy isn't a science in English. I also can't use "editorial board" because I used that for "comité éditorial." Is there a difference between a "comité éditorial" and a "comité scientifique"?
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Dec 18, 2012 08:52: John Holland Created KOG entry

Discussion

tatyana000 (asker) Dec 13, 2012:
The first thing I did was look up the journals in question on the internet. Unfortunately, the information page is in the language of the country in which the journal is published. The journal is international because it accepts articles in various languages, but the credits pages in the journals the professor was involved in were not in English.
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Dec 13, 2012:
Just tried "Philiosphy International" and guess what...? Ended up on the LSE's British Journal of Sociology which has an International Panel. You need to root around and find one on Philosophy with an online edition available and check out the "credits" page along with the Editorial Team.

Example : http://www2.lse.ac.uk/BJS/board/editorialBoard.aspx
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Dec 13, 2012:
If it's an international journal, does an English version not already exist? You could compare the page of the original, or a similar journal and see how it's done there.

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Advisory Panel

Also, Advisory Board or Advisory Committee. See the links in the reference comment by Barbara Carrara.

For an example from an international philosophy journal, see:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-03...

Also see Nikki Scott-Despaigne's link in the discussion section for an example from sociology.

Per the note in my other answer ("peer review"), there is some overlap between the terms "comité scientifique" and "comité de lecture." Some journals have both, some do not. For example:
http://anthropologiesante.revues.org/717
http://www.mnhn.fr/assoc/hasri/sitefr2/comite.html

To further complicate matters, peer review does not require a that a journal have a "comité scientifique" or Advisory Panel, but only a "comité éditorial" or Editorial Board plus either individual referees or a "comité de lecture." See:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/reviewershome.reviewers/pee...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revue_scientifique#Comit.C3.A9...

So in terms of "scientific method" properly speaking, the role of the Advisory Panel or "comité scientifique" - insofar as it is not a "comité de lecture" or a list of individual referees or reviewers - is not completely clear. That would explain why peer-reviewed journals do not always have them.

Be that as it may, many journals do have Advisory Panels, Boards or Committees in addition to Editors and referees or reviewers, so that seems the best translation to me.
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scholarly committee

Only because it seems so obvious to me. Please feel free to prove me wrong.
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