[GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem

[Sandy Thatcher]

One partial solution, pioneered many years ago by a few places like 
Harvard Medical School, is to impose a strict limit on the number of 
articles that can be submitted by a faculty member seeking tenure or 
promotion.  If only six can be submitted, then there is no value in 
writing fifty. Does anyone know  how widely adopted this practice has 
become?

Sandy Thatcher



At 3:25 PM +0100 7/11/16, Danny Kingsley wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>The first in a series of blogs about 'The case for Open Research' 
>went live today.
>
>The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem - 
><https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713>https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713
>
>A taster:
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>
>Let's face it. The biggest blockage we have to widespread Open 
>Access is not researcher apathy, a lack of interoperable systems, or 
>an unwillingness of publishers to engage (although these do each 
>play some part) - it is the problem that the only thing that counts 
>in academia is publication in a high impact journal.
>
>This situation is causing multiple problems, from huge numbers of 
>authors on papers, researchers cherry picking results and 
>retrospectively applying hypotheses, to the reproducibility crisis 
>and a surge in retractions.
>
>This blog was intended to be an exploration of some solutions 
>prefaced by a short overview of the issues. Rather depressingly, 
>there was so much material the blog has had to be split up, with 
>several parts describing the problem(s) before getting to the 
>solutions.
>
>Prepare yourself, this will be a bumpy ride. <...snip...>
>***************************************
>
>I'm not sure that 'enjoy' is the right sign off.
>
>Danny
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