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Meanwhile in academy everyone is complaining on the pressure to publish fast on expense of quality.... Maybe this judging on quantity isn't totally bad?
by tucuman87 6y ago
Meanwhile in academy everyone is complaining on the pressure to publish fast on expense of quality.... Maybe this judging on quantity isn't totally bad?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI don't see that it really applies in this way. No-one is suggesting that scientists change the amount of time and effort they spend immersed in their research. If the system of incentives is preventing researchers from promising-but-still-risky lines of research, that's still a problem. If it's steering researchers away from meaningful research that won't produce anything publishable for a while, in favour of uninteresting variations on a common theme that reliably result in publications, that's still a problem too. It also incentivises salami slicing, [0] which may result in scientific busywork. (Disclaimer: I'm not an academic.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit