quinta-feira, 18 de junho de 2020

Academic fraud keeps mounting and that is why peer review needs to be valued in university rankings

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/05/covid-19-has-changed-peer-review.html

Still following the post above check below the level of fakery that publishing in the field of math has reached https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/15/beggers-test-for-schrodingerean-predator-prey-system/

If Owen Petchey and Jeremy Fox defined “cheats” those co-authoring hundreds of papers without doing proportionate reviewing then all it takes is to hold them accountable for such parasitic behaviour. 

If peer review efforts are important to tackle academic fraud why is it then that no university ranking takes into account that contribution? 

The Shanghai ranking assigns 20% to Nobel Prizes and Field medals and another 20% to Highly Cited Researchers. 
But why not use instead:
20% - Nobel Prizes and Field Medals
15% - Highly Cited Researchers (Top1%)
5% - Peer reviewers in the group Top 1%