269 Citations
The Last 50 Years: Mismeasurement and Mismanagement Are Impeding Scientific Research.
- EducationCurrent topics in developmental biology
- 2016
The cult of the quantifiable: the fetishism of numbers in higher
education
- Education
- 2021
This paper examines the ‘fetishism of numbers’ (Gudeman, 1998, p.1) that has taken hold in restructured, market-oriented institutions of higher education. As all areas of academic life have been…
Where Have All the Scientific and Academic Freedoms Gone? And What Is ‘Adequate for Science’? The Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and Its Applications
- EducationIsrael Law Review
- 2019
Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights protects the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications (REBSPA). While…
Academia’s never-ending selection for productivity
- EducationScientometrics
- 2015
As an attempt to quantify the evolution of the academic profiles of young researchers hired over time, this work took advantage of the highly repeatable recruitment process used by the French CNRS, the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
Benefitting from bibliometry
- Medicine
- 2008
Results-based financing within a department should be used carefully and should fol- low the setting of a clear research agenda, by the lowest-level leaders, and the organisation of the activity into groups.
From crime science to the crime of science
- Law
- 2018
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide an honest and critical reflection with regard to the damage neoliberalised education systems have had on the “crime science” of criminology in…
Escape from the impact factor
- Psychology
- 2008
As Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nature, I am concerned by the tendency within acade- mic administrations to focus on a journal's impact factor when judging the worth of scientific contri- butions…
fetishisation of excellence
- Art
- 2020
The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to…
Excellence R Us: University Research and the Fetishisation of Excellence
- Art
- 2017
The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organisations, from art history to…
Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely
- Education
- 2008
Quantifying the relative performance of individual scholars, groups of scholars, depart- ments, institutions, provinces/states/regions and countries has become an integral part of decision- making…
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Doctors and NHS managers will enjoy this perspective as they try to cope with difficult challenges in auditing, and Michael Power is rightly critical of the current high status given to the act of observing rather than the acts of doing.
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Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research
- EducationBMJ
- 1997
Alternative methods for evaluating research are being sought, such as citation rates and journal impact factors, which seem to be quantitative and objective indicators directly related to published science.
Read Before You Cite!
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- 2003
The application of statistical analysis to misprints in scientific citations can give an insight into the process of scientific writing as well as explain empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations.
Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences
- Psychology, Biology
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Geary presents a theoretical bridge linking parenting, mate choices, and competition, with children's development and sex differences in brain and cognition, in a lively and nuanced application of Darwin's insight to help explain the authors' heritage and their place in the natural world.
Fortnightly Review: How can impact factors be improved?
- Environmental ScienceBMJ
- 1996
Fourteen year cumulative impact data for 10 leading medical journals provide a quantitative indicator of their long term influence.
Quiet debut for the double helix
- BiologyNature
- 2003
The historical record reveals a muted response by the scientific community to the proposal of this structure in 1953, and it was only when the outlines appeared of a mechanism for DNA's involvement in protein synthesis that the biochemical community began to take a serious interest in the structure.
Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science
- EducationPLoS biology
- 2006
Science suffers because, by favouring the self-confident of both sexes, we discriminate against women.
The politics of publication
- PsychologyNature
- 2003
Authors, reviewers and editors must act to protect the quality of research in the face of threats to research integrity.
Rank injustice
- EducationNature
- 2002
The misallocation of credit is endemic in science and is responsible for many of the errors in science.