comité scientifique

English translation: Advisory Panel

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French term or phrase:comité scientifique
English translation:Advisory Panel
Entered by: John Holland

15:52 Dec 13, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Philosophy
French term or phrase: comité scientifique
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"?
tatyana000
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Advisory Panel
Explanation:
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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John Holland
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scholarly committee


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

Gert Sass (M.A.)
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Advisory Panel


Explanation:
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.

John Holland
France
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Reference

Reference information:
Would Advisory Board or Advisory Committee do?

See,
https://www.ffri.hr/phil/casopis/index.html
www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/
www.pjp.edu.pl/
www.brill.com/phronesis

Barbara Carrara
Italy
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  kashew: Yes, I was about to post it :-) No - ladies first!
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agree  John Holland: I seem to have ended up in a similar place, although I took the long way to get there...
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  -> Thanks, John.
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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  -> Thank you, Nikki!
agree  Melissa McMahon
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  -> Thank you, Melissa!
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