If all employers took that to heart, it would change my behavior overnight with regard to how I "do research".
Limit the number of papers to the best three, four, or five that a job or promotion candidate can submit. That would encourage more comprehensive and focused publishing.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Too many journals, too much publishing, too many mediocre papers. One suggestion for change:
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That is only half of the solution. The algorithm for the "impact factor" must also be changed...
Yes, it should. To what? And then that impact factor algorithm will be gamed by some journals. And then it should be changed again.
The problem is more fundamental. If there were many fewer journals, and much less publishing, then people would be able to follow and read the literature instead of relying on an algorithm to tell them what is important.
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