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

[Andrew A. Adams]

> 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?

In the UK, I'm pretty sure it's standard practice to limit the number of 
articles submitted for consideration as part of promotions to in the region 
of 5. However, the full publications list will generally also be submitted. 
So, they look to measure both the quality of the best and the total quantity.



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