quinta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2021

Paper - "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship"

 

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/03/how-many-papers-can-superscientist.html

Still following the above posts about those scientists who can even write articles in their sleep and who are ruining science integrity (because if it is humanly possible that someone can produce hundreds of publications in a single year then those who can only produce two or three dozen in the same period must be dumb and those who produce less than a dozen of these then can only be mentally retarded) it is worth reading the article below from researchers at Maastricht University and Basel University. where the case of professor Sarah Elgin is mentioned, as an example of civil disobedience:

"Whether in the form of pseudonyms, guest authors or creative authorship attribution processes, civil disobedience in authorship serves the explicit purpose of demonstrating how many of the written and unwritten rules governing the distribution of credit and other resources in academia reinforce a long series of inequalities...we would see civil disobedience in faculty members such as in the case of Sarah Elgin, who included hundreds of students as authors on a publication. In fact, her actions are exemplary of civil disobedience...