Invited talk at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar, 12 April 2013): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'". In this talk I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at my home institution (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC) in a scientific seminar (14 June 2013).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at my home institution (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC) in a scientific seminar (14 June 2013).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
What actually is love from a scientific point of view? In the field of neurochemistry and neuropsychiatry love is explained by 8 different chemicals your body produces.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the Document Freedom Day 2014, during the activities organized by the Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Granada (26th March).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the The Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREP) on 6th July 2019.
I have included new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was at the time focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
What actually is love from a scientific point of view? In the field of neurochemistry and neuropsychiatry love is explained by 8 different chemicals your body produces.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the Document Freedom Day 2014, during the activities organized by the Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Granada (26th March).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the The Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREP) on 6th July 2019.
I have included new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was at the time focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This presentation was provided by Dave Kochalko of Artifacts during the NISO event, "Is This Still Working? Incentives to Publish, Metrics, and New Reward Systems," held on February 20, 2019.
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Presentation to CRC Mental Health Early Career Researcher Workshop, Melbourne 29.11.17 for @andsdata.
Workshop title: A by-product of scientific training: We're all a little bit biased.
Increasingly, many aspects of scholarly communication—particularly publication, research data, and peer review—undergo scrutiny by researchers and scholars. Many of these practitioners are engaging in a variety of ways with Alternative Metrics (#altmetrics in the Twitterverse). Alternative Metrics take many forms but often focus on efforts to move beyond proprietary bibliometrics and traditional forms of peer referencing in assessing the quality and scholarly impact of published work. Join NISO for a webinar that will present several emerging aspects of Alternative Metrics.
OA discussion at BILETA 2017, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, focusing on legal journal publication. Co-authored with Catherine Easton and Abhilash Hair
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Slides to my talk at the KMi Podium on July 24, 2012. The video can be found here: http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=29&whichevent=2011&option=both&record=0
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Love for science or 'Academic Prostitution' - ERC talk version
1. Qetesh, 1120 BC Neith, 1250 BC
Love for Science
or
‘Academic Prostitution’?
Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)
ERC Scientific Seminar, Brussels,12/04/2013
3. Environment and galaxies Large sample
Can’t reproduce!
Sharing
Reinvent?
e-Science
Efficient search
Different wavelengths
What to publish? Analysis tools
NGC 5216: Keenan's System by Winder/Hager
4. Outline
• Some warnings:
•Marketing, Citations, Tricks
• Economy?
• New tools to measure impact
• New publication methods
• Reproducibility: data + methods
• Then what?
5.
6. Research
reverts
to
a
kind
of
'academic
pros4tu4on',
in
which
work
is
done
to
please
editors
and
referees
rather
than
to
further
knowledge.
7. Research
reverts
to
a
kind
of
'academic
pros4tu4on',
in
which
work
is
done
to
please
editors
and
referees
rather
than
to
further
knowledge.
Academia
is
to
knowledge
what
pros4tu4on
is
to
love;
close
enough
on
the
surface
but,
to
the
nonsucker,
not
exactly
the
same
thing
Nassim
Nicholas
Taleb,
The
Bed
of
Procrustes:
Philosophical
and
Prac5cal
Aphorisms
8. ...
“Science
is
being
killed
by
numerical
ranking,”[...]
Ranking
systems
lures
scien4sts
into
pursuing
high
rankings
first
and
good
science
second.
9. Evaluator of yearly review of
FP7 EC STREP project:
“There are people who are
paying other researchers to
get their papers cited, so as to
increase their h-index”
10. Marketing for Scientists is a Facebook group, a blog, a workshop, and
a book published by Island Press, meant to help scientists build the
careers they want and restore science to its proper place in society.
Sometimes, unlocking the mysteries of the universe just isn't enough.
11. Difficult
to
learn
from
mistakes
made
in
evalua4ons
of
tenure
promo4ons
and
grants,
because
the
decision-‐making
processes
are
rarely
transparent
12. ...
an
author's
h-‐index
can
reflect
longevity
as
much
as
quality
—
and
can
never
go
down
with
age,
even
if
a
researcher
drops
out
of
science
altogether.
13. Cita4ons:
•
Simple
way
to
denote
influence
•Hard
to
compare
between
fields
or
career
stages
Impact
factor:
•In
2005,
89%
of
Nature’s
impact
factor
was
generated
by
25%
of
the
ar4cles
14. Is peer review any good? (Casati et al)
• Rankings of the review process vs impact (citations):
Very little correlation
•Peer review filters out papers that are most likely to have impact:
Not confirmed
Exploring and Understanding Scientific Metrics in Citation
Networks (Krapivin et al)
PaperRank
PaperRank
Citation counts Citation counts
15. Reputation and Impact in Academic Careers
Alexander M. Petersen
Goal: to better understand the role of social ties, author reputation,
and the citation life cycle of individual papers
• author reputation dominates in the initial phase of a papers citation
life cycle --> papers gain a significant early citation advantage if
written by authors already having high reputations in the scientific
community.
16. CITATIONS
“Remains of Holocene giant pandas from Jiangdong Mountain
(Yunnan, China) and their relevance to the evolution of
quaternary environments in south-western China” (by
Jablonski et al. and published in Historical Biology)
“A quick look at the actual conversations about the paper reveal that it
was Figure 7, not the research content of the paper, that attracted all of
the attention”
Jean Liu, 2013, Who loves Pandas?
17. CITATIONS
“A quick look at the actual conversations about the paper reveal that it
was Figure 7, not the research content of the paper, that attracted all of
the attention”
Jean Liu, 2013, Who loves Pandas?
19. ECONOMY?
“What has economics to do with science?
economics is about understanding how human beings behave
when one or more resources are scarce”
Blog M Nielsen 2008
People pushed to apply for grants
20. ECONOMY?
Examples of advices to improve chances of getting a grant:
•title of the project counts 50%
•proposals circulated in the institute
OK that sounds fun, but what does it reflect?
“Evaluators don’t have time to read in detail proposals”
“Evaluators are not experts, so if your full institute can follow and find it
attractive a typical evaluator will”
21. ECONOMY?
R. Brooks (Univ. New South
Economy has a bad influence in:
• Candidates: pushed to get funds
• Funders: expensive to get enough experts during enough time
hence in Science
22. ECONOMY?
“OPTING FOR OPEN ACCESS MEANS CONSIDERING COSTS, JOURNAL
PRESTIGE AND CAREER IMPLICATIONS”
STEPHEN PINCOCK, 2013. NATURE, 495, 539
• Senior advice to young scientists: go to the most prestigious journal
24. IMPACT
Citations represent less than 1% of usage for an article.
PLOS (Public Library of Science) (November 2012)
Richard Cave at the Charleston Conference 2012, Charleston
25. IMPACT
altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based
on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.
26. IMPACT
Indicators for funding bodies of recent research (a large number of
downloads, views, plays...):
how open and accessible scientists are making their
research
Strongly recommend altmetrics be considered not as a replacement but
as a supplement for careful expert evaluation:
to highlight research products that might otherwise go unnoticed
Alternative metrics are thought to free researchers
from conventional measures of prestige
STEPHEN PINCOCK, 2013. NATURE, 495, 539
28. IMPACT
Head of digital services at
the Wellcome Trust Library
(one of the world's major resources
for the study of medical history):
Policies of the UK programme for
assessing research quality, the
Research Excellence Framework:
no grant-review sub-panel “will
make any use of journal impact
factors, rankings, lists or the
perceived standing of publishers in
assessing the quality of research
outputs”
29. IMPACT
Not only a solution: it is just happening
In the next ten years, most scholars will join such
networks, driven by both the value of improved
networking and the fear of being left out of
important conversations.
The flow of scholarly information
is expanding by orders of
magnitude, swamping our paper-
based filtering system
J. PRIEM, 2013. NATURE, 495, 437
J. PRIEM, 2013. NATURE, 495, 437
30. In the Web era, scholarship leaves footprints. IMPACT
The editors and reviewers employed as proxy community
assessors will be replaced by the aggregated, collective
judgements of communities themselves
J. PRIEM, 2013. NATURE, 495, 437
is the creation and study of
new metrics based on the
Social Web for analyzing, and
informing scholarship.
31. In the Web era, scholarship leaves footprints. IMPACT
The editors and reviewers employed as proxy community
assessors will be replaced by the aggregated, collective
judgements of communities themselves
J. PRIEM, 2013. NATURE, 495, 437
is the creation and study of
new metrics based on the
Social Web for analyzing, and
informing scholarship.
32. ALTMETRICS = NEW PUBLICATION METHODS
Authority and expertise are central in the Web era as they were in the journal era.
The difference is that whereas the paper-based system used subjective criteria to
identify authoritative voices, the Web-based one assesses authority
recursively from the entire community.
J. PRIEM, 2013. NATURE, 495, 437
33. ALTMETRICS = NEW PUBLICATION METHODS
Reputation:
a (very) rough measurement of how much the MathOverflow community
trusts you.
never given, earned by convincing other users that you know what you're
talking about.
•good question or helpful answer: voted up by peers: 10 points
•off topic or incorrect: voted down: -2 points.
✴10 = Make community wiki posts
✴100 =Vote down
✴250 = Vote to close or reopen your questions
✴2000 = Edit other people's posts
....
34. ALTMETRICS = NEW PUBLICATION METHODS
• Journals adopting an open/collaborative process of review/evaluation
•arXiv, Nature Precedings, PlosOne
• Social bookmarking and tagging:
•Connotea, CiteULike, Del.icio.us, BibSonomy
35. NEW PUBLICATION METHODS
NANOPUBLICATIONS
Smallest unit of publishable information
nanopub.org
•Triplet - subject, predicate, object:
UNIPROT 05067 is a protein
•Uniquely identified and attributed to its author
•Can be serialized using existing ontologies and RDF
•Machine readable: knowledge exchange assisted by computers
•Administered by the Concept Web Alliance
•Based on open standard
• Twittered nano-publication assessed by 1000 experts
36. A blog that reports on retractions of scientific papers
(Ivan Oransky - executive editor of Reuters Health - and Adam Marcus
- managing editor of Anesthesiology News)
Aim: to increase the transparency of the retraction process:
retractions of papers generally are not announced, and the reasons for
retractions are not publicized.
37. Open access, peer-reviewed, promotes discussion of results:
•unexpected, controversial, provocative and/or negative
•that challenge current models, tenets or dogmas.
•illustrate how commonly used methods and techniques are
unsuitable for studying a particular phenomenon.
Not all will turn out to be of such groundbreaking significance.
However, we strongly believe that such "negative"
observations and conclusions, based on rigorous
experimentation and thorough documentation, ought
to be published in order to be discussed, confirmed or
refuted by others.
38. NEW PUBLICATION METHODS
A MOVEMENT TO PUBLISH RESEARCH IN REAL TIME
The journal Push lets scholars build journal articles incrementally, with
each version tracked and open online, available for collaboration and
comment throughout (see http://push.cwcon.org).
40. Is NOT a release early, instead
of peer review model.
Treat research as software:
release notes & version management
41. ATTENTION TO PUBLISHING DATA AND METHODS
Many scientists are too busy or lack the knowledge to tackle data-
management on their own
R. MONASTERSKY, 2013. NATURE, 495, 430
42. ATTENTION TO PUBLISHING DATA AND METHODS
Abelard and Héloise: Why Data and Publications
Belong Together
Eefke Smit (International Association of STM Publishers: members
collectively publish nearly 66% of all journal articles)
• Journals to require availability of underlying research material as an
editorial policy
• Ensure data is stored, curated and preserved in trustworthy places
• Ensure links (bi-directional) and persistent identifiers between data
and publications
• Establish uniform citation practices of data
43. ATTENTION TO PUBLISHING DATA AND METHODS
MOVING FROM NARRATIVES (LAST 300 YRS) TO THE ACTUAL
OUTPUT OF RESEARCH
http://datapub.cdlib.org
• How to measure science output:
• data in any format (tables, images, etc)
• algorithms
• analysis tools
• NSF example:
• Chapter II.C.2.f(i)(c), Biographical Sketch(es), has
been revised to rename the “Publications” section to
“Products” and amend terminology and instructions
accordingly. This change makes clear that products
may include, but are not limited to, publications, data
sets, software, patents, and copyrights.
• To make it count, however, it needs to be both
citable and accessible.
44. ATTENTION TO PUBLISHING DATA AND METHODS
DataOne
(US NSF funded)
Preservation + access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data:
biological data from the genome to the ecosystem of environmental data available
from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic source
The Collage Authoring Environment
(Nowakowski et al)
A software infrastructure which enables domain scientists to collaboratively
develop and publish their work in the form of executable papers
Paper Maché: Creating Dynamic Reproducible
Science
(Brammer et al 2011)
Paper management system using virtual environments so that the
full experiment is packaged with a Virtual machine.
45. Wf4Ever (Workflows forever) project
Astronomy Use Case
Preservation of the methods
• Investigatesand develops technological infrastructure for the
preservation and efficient retrieval and reuse of scientific
workflows
• Introduced the concept of a Research Object, containing the
artefacts needed to interpret or reconstruct research
- High investment in data
infrastructures
- Exploitation is usually an
issue
- Workflows as live-tutorials
EU FUNDED FP7 STREP PROJECT
DECEMBER 2010 – DECEMBER 2013
46. Abelard
and
Héloise:
Why
Data
and
Publica4ons
Belong
Together
Ee%e
Smit
(Interna/onal
Associa/on
of
STM
Publishers:
members
collec4vely
publish
nearly
66%
of
all
journal
ar4cles)
• Journals
to
require
availability
of
underlying
research
material
as
an
editorial
policy
• Ensure
data
is
stored,
curated
and
preserved
in
trustworthy
places
• Ensure
links
(bi-‐direc/onal)
and
persistent
iden/fiers
between
data
and
publica/ons
• Establish
uniform
cita/on
prac/ces
of
data
Astronomy:
ADS has been linking papers with Vizier data. Now also
observing proposals, telescope, software is being referenced
Collaboration with Wf4Ever started to transform to RO.
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(Carole Goble, Beyond the PDF 2013)
50. SOME IDEAS
•Give to the committees the scientometry so they know de facto that
their role is not counting numbers?
•Include someone with basic understanding of scientometrics
•Allow to submit top few papers for evaluation to allow tenure
candidates to submit just their top few papers for evaluation
(K. Shaw, Scientific Method blog)
•In an evaluation, researchers have to show that at least one of their
Research Objects has been used by someone else.
Maybe cited.
Preferably Used. (Carole Goble, Beyond the PDF 2013)
•Each review needs to be the subject of evaluation, just as with scientific
publications.
51. SOME REFLEXIONS
Can excellence kill Science?
•Science works through micro improvements and multiple errors
and failures until something finally works
•We’ve become paralyzed with the notion that showing incremental
improvements and corrections hurts, rather than helps, our personal
careers and science.
Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return?
By Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield
52. SOME REFLEXIONS
Shift the balance to the Methodology
•Clear hypothesis
•Data Is it reproducible? is Science
•Formula
•Methods
Give less weight to the results: better quality
53. Understanding metrics, reducing reliance on rankings, and suggesting
new ways to evaluate scientists are only the beginning; it’s going to
take a sea change and lots of cooperation among scientists, journals,
and academic and government institutions to banish the “publish or
perish” mentality.
(K. Shaw, Scientific Method blog)
The aim doesn’t justify the mean (Scientific) Method
Robert Antonucci. NATURE, 495, 165