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The formal, professional administration might be one of the sources of the problem. How is a professional administrator going to distinguish people? By looking
by dragandj 10y ago
The formal, professional administration might be one of the sources of the problem. How is a professional administrator going to distinguish people? By looking at formal requirements, of course. So, how many papers does person X have? 3? Want to beef up the resume? Some hundreds/thousands of dollars invested and here you are - the same person with 78 papers.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoWhat you really need is a sensible process that isn't administered by those subject to it. Else you have all the tenured faculty sitting in a circle, handing an easy job to the person on their right, and all the hard work that's left is dropped onto the untenured faculty. Or you have senior tenured faculty in their mid-50s dumb as nuts (because when they entered working life anyone with a pulse could find a nice job in industry) holding back junior faculty and progress in general, for fear that their achievements would throw shade on them. You can't rely on a sense of duty and community, that train left the US when Reagan came in. The citation problem you already have. In a previous workplace the materials science people would push for a publication count. Of course they would! In that field the bar for a viable publication is much lower than in the life sciences.