Stop the Numbers Game - Counting papers slows the rate of scientific progress.
Κοινώς, η ποσότητα σκοτώνει την ποιότητα ακόμα και στην επιστημονική έρευνα. Το άρθρο σε html και σε pdfΑs a senior researcher, I am saddened to see funding agencies, department heads, deans, and promotion committees encouraging younger researchers to do shallow research. As a reader of what should be serious scientific journals, I am annoyed to see the computer science literature being polluted by more and more papers of less and less scientific value. As one who has often served as an editor or referee, I am offended by discussions that imply that the journal is there to serve the authors rather than the readers. Other readers of scientific journals should be similarly outraged and demand change.
The cause of all of these manifestations is the widespread policy of measuring researchers by the number of papers they publish, rather than by the correctness, importance, real novelty, or relevance of their contributions.
) λόγους που δεν ασχολήθηκα περαιτέρω με ερευνητικά θέματα ήταν αυτός που αναφέρει ο συγγραφέας. Έχω διαβάσει αρκετά papers που δεν είχαν νόημα ύπαρξης...
