'Troublesome pattern': More papers from heads of shuttered clinic under investigation - At a time when science deniers are in the ascendence, this kind of scandal is not helpful. More rigorous vetting is clearly in order. #Science #Research #Researcher #psychology #psychiatry #academia #HigherEd #PublishOrPerish #education https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/troublesome-pattern-more-papers-from-heads-of-shuttered-clinic-under-investigation/

So... I'm not sure reviewers are appropriately incentivized to deal with rebuttals and resubmissions in a *get you published* way. As a young assistant professor I'm told how selfish I need to be. But I need to serve on committees. I want to make the field better. I invested. Much to my own doom as my submissions lacked certain qualities that I was helping others fix on their own stuff. This system sucks.

#academafia #publishorperish @academicchatter #academicchatter

Since this is the 2nd time in a row that we get a paper rejected at a conference with only positive reviews, without even a proper justification in the meta-review, the only "justification" being "acceptance rate needs to be kept low", here some thoughts about possible counter-strategies:

1) Simply make lots of people submit nonsense-papers just to bring the acceptance rate to “acceptably low” levels?

2) Flood-submit yourself, but instead with intteresting papers you like rather do easy-to-do “save” delta-research papers (some of those will go through, we will show this in one of our forthcoming papers!)

Is this what we want? #publishorperish

Nothing new under the sun, but it is always interesting to see how deep the rabbit hole goes....
#publishorperish #mdpi #pyramidscheme #metrics #impactfactor
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html

Life's paradox: waiting for months to get reviews of a paper, and receiving them on the week that you cannot possibly do one more thing 😅 #reviewprocess #publication #PublishOrPerish

Life's paradox: waiting for months to get reviews of a paper, and receiving them on the week that you cannot possibly do one more thing 😅 #reviewprocess #publication #PublishOrPerish

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#References

[1] Letrud, K., Hernes, S., 2019. Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: a three-in-one case study. PLOS ONE 14, e0222213+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222213

[2] Smaldino, P.E., McElreath, R., 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science 3, 160384+. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384

#DOI #entropy #ScienceSelfCorrection #CognitiveBiases #science #research #PublishOrPerish

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[1] Letrud, K., Hernes, S., 2019. Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: A three-in-one case study. PLOS ONE 14, e0222213+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222213

[2] Smaldino, P.E., McElreath, R., 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science 3, 160384+. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384

#DOI #entropy #ScienceSelfCorrection #CognitiveBiases #science #research #PublishOrPerish

"Researchers are under brutal pressure to publish studies. Their salary increases, promotions, project funding and social prestige depend on evaluations in which their performance is measured practically by weight. This system — known as “publish or perish” — has created monsters."

HT @JessButler

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html

#ResearchAssessment #PublicationEthics #PublishOrPerish

My colleague Alison Preston and collegues recently published an interesting paper on the gender gap in research productivity during #COVID19. Most of it boils down to whether a respondent has primary caring responsibilities or not.
#Academia #PublishOrPerish

https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2201589

Much misconduct, especially paper mills, is driven by perverse incentives to publish, created by governments - but this is enabled by publishers discussing Impact Factors, citation numbers, and rankings, argues @ivanoransky

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #PublishOrPerish

This probably comes from a good place but what about the #publishorperish culture in #academia ? Isn’t it also where one must teach, mentor, write numerous proposals, network, review, chair…. All this assuming one gets a job. How do people get time to do all this & have a life?
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#Publishorperish #forschungslegionär #ki

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000145250611/spanische-uni-suspendiertihren-produktivsten-forscher-fuer-13-jahre

"Luque is constantly publishing papers. Last year he authored some 110 articles. So far this year he has published 58. The chemist admitted that since December, he has been using the artificial intelligence program #ChatGPT to “polish” his texts." https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html

#AcademicFraudulence
#AcademicIntegrity
#PublishOrPerish
#AcWri
#ScienceWriting
#Science

So, 2 weeks is too little for a proper review and publishing process, but a paper every 37 hrs is a top-notch practice for #academia and universities? Because I fail to see the kind of criticism of Luque and his kind that emerged lately with the #MDPI... #publishorperish #publishing #predatorypublisher

“I found a study by Rafael Luque whose authorship had previously been offered in a group on Telegram,” Nick Wise, a researcher at Cambridge University said.

Luque... attributed his suspension to “pure envy.”

#Academia #PublishOrPerish

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html

And they are still wondering why #science is so unsexy, coloring nails won't cut it 🤣💅🏻

#academicpublishing #publishorperish

Block #MDPI? Great, people will go to #Frontiers. Block them, and a new mass publisher will emerge within months. You're not fighting the cause; you're fighting the symptom. #publishorperish #OpenAccess #academia #predatory #predatorypublisher

Time and again, I see arguments that #MDPI is #predatory because it publishes hundreds of thousands of papers. I urge anyone who claims this to look at how many papers researchers publish annually in their field. Then multiply that by the number of researchers. MDPI's volume is not the cause; it is a symptom of a #publishorperish culture #openaccess #academia #predatorypublisher

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Quel impact des #GenerativeAI comme #ChatGPT sur la recherche et les publications scientifiques ?
Accélération
Automatisation
Comment des chercheurs ayant intégré #PublishOrPerish vont-ils s'adapter ? https://twitter.com/RetractionWatch/status/1636502700186632199

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