<div dir="ltr">The Computing Research Association (CRA), which has computer science departments and schools and colleges as members (i.e., chairs and deans), in July 2014 approved a new "Best Practices Memo" along these lines (<a href="http://goo.gl/GkyF7r">http://goo.gl/GkyF7r</a>). It recommends (in part): "Evaluate candidates for tenure and promotion on the basis of the contributions in their most important three to five publications". An earlier (1999) related memo was *very* influential in convincing deans and provosts at essentially every US university to treat competitive, peer-reviewed *conference* publications in computer science on equal footing with journal publications. I don't know how widely (if at all) the new memo on limiting the number of articles "counted" has been adopted, but these things take time.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>---</div><div>Jeff MacKie-Mason</div><div>University Librarian</div><div>Chief Digital Scholarship Officer</div></div><div>Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics</div><div>UC Berkeley</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.jeff-mason.com" target="_blank">www.jeff-mason.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Sandy Thatcher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sgt3@psu.edu" target="_blank">sgt3@psu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Sandy Thatcher</div><span class="">
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<div>At 3:25 PM +0100 7/11/16, Danny Kingsley wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite">Hello all,<br>
<br>
The first in a series of blogs about 'The case for Open Research' went
live today.<br>
<br>
The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem - <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713" target="_blank">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713</a><br>
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A taster:<br>
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</span><blockquote type="cite">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 <b>the only thing that counts in academia is publication in
a high impact journal</b>.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Prepare yourself, this will be a bumpy
ride. <...snip...><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I'm not sure that 'enjoy' is the right
sign off.<br>
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Danny</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><tt>--<br>
Dr Danny Kingsley<br>
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication<br>
Cambridge University Library<br>
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E:</tt> <a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank"><tt>dak45@cam.ac.uk</tt></a><tt><br>
T: @dannykay68<br>
B:</tt> <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><tt>https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/</tt></a><tt><br>
S:</tt> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley" target="_blank"><tt>http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley</tt></a><tt><br>
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</tt></blockquote>
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<div>Sanford G. Thatcher<br>
Frisco, TX 75034-5514<br>
<a href="https://scholarsphere.psu.edu" target="_blank">https://scholarsphere.psu.edu</a><br>
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"If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying."-John
Ruskin (1865)<br>
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"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few
people who can write know anything."-Walter Bagehot (1853)<br>
<br>
"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance
with the limitations and incapacities of the human
misunderstanding."-Ambrose Bierce (1906)<br>
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