[GOAL] Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: The Qualis and the silence of the Brazilian researchers

[Andrew A. Adams]

Jeroen wrote:
> What would be foolish however is to assess, judge, award, hire or fund
> someone based on the lid of the silo that person has published in. I'm
> convinced that in the long run academia will recognize that. You can
> already see it happening in e.g. Germany, UK and the Netherlands.

I see little sign of this happening in the UK (albeit I'm in Japan these days 
but I keep in good touch with colleagues in the UK). If anything the RAE and 
now the REF has made hiring in particular, but also promotion, more slavishly 
attached to things like Impact Factors. In the runup to the recent REF one 
department I know of had a "requirement" that all staff attempt to publish 
four papers during the REF asssessment period in journals with an IF greater 
than 1. No suggestion even that publishing in a journal with a lower impact 
factor but achieving high citation rates (I published a paper in an OA 
(no-APCs) journal with 2013 SJR of 0.9 which has received well over 100 
citations) would be acceptable. It had to be an an IF>1 journal for inclusion 
in the REF return.




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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
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Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/