Open science un fenomen pregatit sa schimbe realitatea cercetarii
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-18
Summary:
From Google Translate: "For decades, peer-reviewed research articles (subject to critical evaluation by independent experts) is the standard form of manifestation of value and scientific productivity, the partial exception arts, humanities and social sciences, where cards (sometimes subject to the same peer- review) still play an important role. Peer review articles gives a scientific label quality and reputation and impact factor (bibliometric indicators based on the number of citations) magazine has been published an article increases the prestige and scientific value.
The number and impact of published articles underlying professional performances, influencing colleagues assessment and career development, plays a vital role in winning the competition of research projects etc. This type of academic culture, stimulating researcher to publish more in journals rated as, indirectly led to an explosion in the number of scientific articles and publications decisive influence both the quality and the whole research system. For some time, this approach to scientific inquiry is facing a set of major problems, which amplifies the general desire to increase the efficiency of research: the system partially anachronistic reward (especially the financing of science and innovation), the fragmentation of research, the assessment - sometimes transparent, delayed access to new discoveries (in the sense of rediscovering their various forms in everyday life), reproduction difficult (sometimes impossible) results, high costs and slow process of publishing etc. Three examples, selected from a very long list, are relevant in this respect: I) preclinical worth approx. $ 28 billion / year (only in USA) - representing 50% of total investment - are not reproducible; II) in 2013, Professor Randy W. Schekman, Nobel laureate for medicine / physiology, urged the scientific community to boycott high impact factor journals such as Science, Nature and Cell; III) Peter Higgs, the British physicist Nobel laureate for physics in the same year, today professor emeritus, said that no university would hire him under current academic system as it would be considered sufficiently 'productive' scientific.
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