Tag: universities
The Research Council of Norway has issued an inspiring new policy to improve gender balance in research institutions and to raise the quality of research by expanding research questions to better cover matters related to sex and gender.
A study of the state of research in Norway over the past 10 years concludes that incentives to increase quantity don’t necessarily harm quality — but they don’t help it, either.
Open access and internationalization are the focus of Part 3 of my series on the Norwegian “payment for publication” scheme.
3 simple distinctions your government should eliminate from its research financing system
The Norwegian “payment for publication” scheme treats journals and anthologies differently and does not acknowledge the value of writing textbooks or editing collections. In Part 2 of this series, I argue for correcting these features of the system.
Do you make these 6 mistakes? A funding scheme that turns professors into typing monkeys
Here in Part 1 of a 3-part series on the Norwegian “payment for publication” policy, I argue that the two-tier quality system should be dropped.
What Science — and the Gonzo Scientist — got wrong: open access will make research better
The “sting” operation published in Science Magazine claims to highlight corruption in the open access model, but it’s actually about problems with peer review — even if Science claims otherwise.
Is there a conflict between academic freedom and open access policies? Or do those policies potential serve to strengthen our freedom?
Three problems with scientific publications are presented here: retraction rates are rising, research is increasingly unreproducible and journals are making decisions designed to increase their visibility.
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