@HuMetricsHSS will hold a #workshop to envision the future of Academy. It will be carry a virtual event on May 9 and 10. It seeks to include people working on transforing academy:
PS: We can all list some of the factors at work here, and we should. My start: Paying more attention to where a work is published, and the fact of publication itself, than to the quality of what is published.
"The University of Tokyo became the first Japanese university to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (#DORA, @DORAssessment) on 1 December 2023."
PS: They don't discount open access, open data, and open code (or open protocols, preregistration, and so on). They take a step back and ask what strategies will advance them.
"Importantly, being an author is not only about credit but also about accountability. Typically, an author will be accountable for the quality and integrity of their own contribution, but also for the work as a whole by ensuring that questions arising post-publication are investigated thoroughly and that materials and data remain available."
I don't understand why some institutions are obsessed with conference acceptance rates. Is there any evidence that the acceptance rate works well as a proxy for #academicquality?
"China now has more researchers than the US, outspends the US and EU in research and development and publishes more scientific papers each year than any other nation in the world… China continues to have problems with research integrity and has the highest number of retractions of any country due to plagiarism, invented data and fake peer review."
@petersuber "In addition, institutions must not promote or recruit researchers solely on the basis of the number of published papers or citations. Instead, assessments will now be judged by indicators of quality, such as how innovative the work is, whether it represents a significant scientific advance, or its contribution to solving important societal problems."