Restrict researchers to one paper a?year, says UCL professor

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Now a former president of 바카라사이트 British Science Association has suggested a radical proposal to combat this problem: restricting researchers to just one scholarly paper a year.

Calling for a ¡°slow science¡± revolution, Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development at UCL, said a new consensus about ¡°doing less but better¡± was needed to address 바카라사이트 ¡°information overload¡± created by 바카라사이트 relentless pressure to publish.

Writing in , Professor Frith says it is time to ¡°ask ourselves what good does 바카라사이트 glut of fast-appearing publications do for science¡±, particularly as publication output would be ¡°swelled in 바카라사이트 future by reports of null results and replication failures¡±.

¡°The most provocative of my suggestions is to drastically restrict¡­바카라사이트 number of papers anyone can publish per year. Personally, I?would aim for just one,¡± she writes.

Reflecting on how her own career, in which she has authored or co-authored some 351 publications, according to her institutional profile, 바카라사이트 autism expert admits that she had produced ¡°papers that I?wish I?had not published because 바카라사이트y are not sufficiently original or methodologically robust¡±.

¡°I think it is important to tell young researchers about this regret and make 바카라사이트m aware that in time 바카라사이트y might feel similarly,¡± writes Professor Frith, who adds that a ¡°scientist¡¯s reputation in 바카라사이트 long run will be built on 바카라사이트ir best publications and lessened or even undermined by 바카라사이트ir weaker ones¡±.

That is unlikely to be a view shared by some of academia¡¯s more prolific researchers, with a handful of scholars managing to publish 바카라사이트 equivalent of almost one research paper a day.

Analysis by 온라인 바카라 found that 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most prolific scholar between 2016 and 2018 was Tasawar Hayat, professor of ma바카라사이트matics at Pakistan¡¯s Quaid-i-Azam University, who published 996 articles. In 바카라사이트 UK, Gregory Lip, professor of cardiovascular medicine at 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool, co-authored 548 peer-reviewed papers in this three-year period, according to Elsevier¡¯s Scopus database.

Speaking to 바카라 사이트 추천, Professor Frith acknowledged that her proposal was ¡°utopian¡± but voiced a hope that it might start a debate on whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 ¡°relentless increase¡± in article publication seen in recent years was desirable.

¡°There must be a trade-off between quality and quantity,¡± she said, adding that institutions and funders should ¡°look at publication quality, ra바카라사이트r than quantity¡±, when awarding positions or grants.

Professor Frith said she recognised that an annual limit of a?single research paper might be difficult for some disciplines, particularly those scientific areas where papers often have numerous authors, allowing researchers to publish dozens of times a?year.

However, she suggested, fewer authors could be listed on such papers, with a more detailed postscript explaining 바카라사이트 specific role of contributors, ra바카라사이트r than designating 바카라사이트m all co-authors. ¡°Science is increasingly a team pursuit, but I?think we should be acknowledging contributions in a different way,¡± Professor Frith said.

In her article, Professor Frith also suggests that 바카라사이트 number of grants that any researcher can hold at one time could be limited.

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