segunda-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2019

University College London____A radical proposal to tackle the publication deluge, the rise of paper mills and consortia´s mafia



Addressing the weighty concerns highlighted in the previous discussion titled "Consortia’s Mafia Dons," it's imperative to examine the proposal outlined below, presented by a distinguished professor from UCL. In an article penned by an Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a bold proposition is put forth to tackle the prevalent issue of publication overload within the scientific community. Professor Uta Frith advocates for a paradigm shift towards what she terms as "slow science"

“When many successful scientists boast dozens, even hundreds, of research papers to their name, calls for more “quality over quantity” in publication can appear to ring rather hollow. Now a former president of the British Science Association has suggested a radical proposal to combat this problem: restricting researchers to just one scholarly paper a year. Calling for a “slow science” revolution, Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development at UCL, said a new consensus about “doing less but better” was needed to address the “information overload” created by the relentless pressure to publish”Writing in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Professor Frith says it is time to “ask ourselves what good does the glut of fast-appearing publications do for science”, particularly as publication output would be “swelled in the future by reports of null results and replication failures…The most provocative of my suggestions is to drastically restrict…the number of papers anyone can publish per year" https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/restrict-researchers-one-paper-ayear-says-ucl-professor