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If employers and funding agencies would stop using publications in private, for-profit journals to evaluate whether researchers should get to keep their job or
by michaelhoffman 11y ago
If employers and funding agencies would stop using publications in private, for-profit journals to evaluate whether researchers should get to keep their job or have their grants renewed, then this wouldn't be an issue.
- drjesusphd 11y agoAnd if experts would stop reviewing articles for free...
- tomjen3 11y agoThat sounds doable, actually. Have the NSF only base their grants on publications in open access journals.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoOr even just weight any open access journal more than any closed journal. That way you can still use historical publications to evaluate researchers on day one, and the evaluations will be accurate assuming most researchers historically each published the same percentage of articles in open access journals, but nobody will want to publish in anything but an open access journal going forward.
- guy_c 11y agoThis is a good point, but it actually goes further up the chain. The universities in UK, a lot of their funding is driven from publication record of their staff. So they too are just responding to incentives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_Framework