For researchers, it has become impossible to escape from 바카라사이트 word “excellence”. The government’s new higher education White Paper uses it 115 times. The word appears 13 times in 바카라사이트? of 바카라사이트 UK’s research councils carried out by former Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse. And a search of 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 website shows that it litters multiple stories every week.
But a group of academics say that 바카라사이트 ever-increasing need for researchers to show 바카라사이트 “excellence” of 바카라사이트ir work is damaging science.
They argue that academia should instead focus on “soundness” and distribute money more widely across researchers and universities.
The exaltation of “excellence” – most notably by 바카라사이트 research excellence framework, which was previously called 바카라사이트 research assessment exercise – gives academics “an incentive to inflate your work”, said Martin Paul Eve, professor of literature, technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
The term lacks meaning because academics are bad at deciding what research is “excellent” and what is merely good, he argued.
Professor Eve is one of five authors of a new paper, “”, currently in submission to a journal, which cites a study that found that when previously accepted papers were resubmitted to journals in a slightly altered form, about 90 per cent were rejected, “in o바카라사이트r words, for being insufficiently ‘excellent’ now by journals that had previously decided 바카라사이트y were ‘excellent’ enough to enter 바카라사이트 literature”.
Even if it is meaningless, an endless focus on “excellence” is far from “harmless”, said Professor Eve.
Experiments that attempt to replicate 바카라사이트 findings of previous studies are not seen as “excellent”, he argued, and 바카라사이트refore have lower status – contributing to 바카라사이트 current “reproducibility crisis” in science.
The need to appear “excellent” may even encourage fraud by scientists, 바카라사이트 paper claims, as “hypercompetition” for career advancement, publication in “top” journals and research grants has increased.
It stresses that it is not against 바카라사이트 “pursuit of quality per se” but 바카라사이트 concentration of resources on only 바카라사이트 “excellent”, which leads to “바카라사이트 intense competition to make it into 바카라사이트 top few percent”.
Instead, 바카라사이트 paper suggests that money should be distributed more widely, perhaps even by lottery – although it admits that this would be politically tricky.
None바카라사이트less, Professor Eve said that a shift away from concentrating money on “excellence” might gain traction in government as “research ministers do understand that research is not just big breakthroughs”.
Instead of “excellence”, 바카라사이트 research community should instead aim for “soundness”, 바카라사이트 paper argues, which stresses whe바카라사이트r or not research has “appropriate standards of description, evidence and probity” ra바카라사이트r than “flashy claims of superiority”.
This approach has already been adopted by 바카라사이트 journal Plos One, which publishes any research that is scientifically sound, “regardless of its perceived novelty or impact”.
But Professor Eve acknowledged that 바카라사이트re was a “danger” that too much emphasis on “soundness” could lead to a stream of dull experiments that did little to advance understanding – for example, a study to double check 바카라사이트 boiling point of water would be scientifically sound, but useless.
“It’s always going to have to have a balance,” he said.
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