Do our measures of academic success hurt science?
No CommentsIn the fourth article in a series called “Rethinking research” on Inside Higher Ed Frank Miedema and Rinze Benedictus from the UMC Utrecht describe new evaluation pract...
Halffman and Radder update their ‘...
In April 2015 Willem Halffman and Hans Radder published an Academic Manifesto. It described how universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’ and misconceived economic salv...
The truth about China’s Cash-For-P...
MIT Technology Review released an article on their website about the Chinese policy of rewarding publications of Chinese researchers in top Western journals with cash. The cash rewards for scientists can rise to over $100.000 per paper, an incredible 20 times the average salary of university profes...
Inside Higher Ed starts “Rethinking Research blog”
No CommentsOver the last twelve years it has become clear concerns regarding reproducibility of research have risen. Not only the article “Why public research Findings are False” of John Ioannidis but also the lack of reproducibility of studies in the field...
Shutting down the “Miracle Machine”
No CommentsOn the 11th of July 2017 Daniel Sarewitz, co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, released a column in Nature about the “miracle machine”, a fictive machine based on basic science that according...
Societal impact of academic research in the knowledge society
No CommentsIn March 2017 the League of European Research Universities (LERU) released a position paper called: ‘Productive interactions: societal impact of academic research in the knowledge society’. In this paper LERU “reflects on the con...
Improving the transparency and reproducibility of research by means of data accessibility
No CommentsIn an article published on their website on June 12th, Nature encourages open data sharing and the use of open data platforms. According to Nature there are good reasons for sharing open data. “It speeds research, allowing others to build promptly ...