sábado, 15 de fevereiro de 2020

Science and Engineering Ethics___“I am Primarily Paid for Publishing…”

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/02/scientific-misconduct-kuhnian.html

Still following the post above see below a recent paper published in Science and Engineering Ethics by researchers of the University of Vienna. 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11948-020-00191-8  
I´m afraid to say that this paper is just a missed opportunity. 

Yes there´s a problem about the academic reward system that promotes the motto "I am Primarily Paid for Publishing…" but its not so much because that it does not favour the political "societal" related agenda but because it aggravates the publication deluge
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/highly-cited-researchers-hcrs-seem-to.html
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/university-college-londona-radical.html
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/02/scientific-misconduct-kuhnian.html

In a time of rampant science misconduct, we need to have a proper balance between publishing and curating. And last but not the least its worth remembering the words of Jeremy Fox and Owen L. Petchey concerning the parasites of the publishing process