Watch out for cheats in citation game

juschuetze's bookmarks 2016-07-15

Summary:

When scientists misbehave, the culture of ‘publish or perish’ is often blamed. Some researchers cut corners, massage data and images or invent results to secure academic papers and the rewards that come with them. This is rightly regarded as misconduct. But there is a new class of bad behaviour — one that is driven by a related but different pressure: ‘impact or perish’.

Link:

http://www.nature.com/news/watch-out-for-cheats-in-citation-game-1.20246

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » juschuetze's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.misconduct oa.impact oa.citations oa.publishing oa.credibility oa.jif oa.metrics

Date tagged:

07/15/2016, 12:15

Date published:

07/15/2016, 08:15