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In the US, both academic hiring and proposal reviews are already laborious jobs where committee members are supposed to investigate the candidate/proposal deepl
by unishark 5y ago
In the US, both academic hiring and proposal reviews are already laborious jobs where committee members are supposed to investigate the candidate/proposal deeply on their merits and potential. It shouldn't be a new burden for them to be unable to take shortcuts.
I think the recent wave of low-impact submissions and co-authorship rings is the result of developing countries trying to simplify that process and tying hiring/promotion/pay directly to publication count and related easy metrics.
- jhrmnn 5y agoAre supposed to, but doing that would require so much more work than is usually being put into it now. Especially in the first rounds, it would be impossible to review all candidates/proposals thoroughly without having staff dedicated to just that. (IMO institutions should have such highly-skilled staff.) It may be true that the SNR in research output from developing countries is lower, but there is still lots of good science. But essentially no publishers with good reputation. So even with the same SNR, the increased pool of countries producing science would add to the publication pressure.