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by MaxBarraclough
2063 days ago
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I don't see that it really applies in this way. No-one is suggesting that scientists change the amount of time and effort they spend immersed in their research. If the system of incentives is preventing researchers from promising-but-still-risky lines of research, that's still a problem. If it's steering researchers away from meaningful research that won't produce anything publishable for a while, in favour of uninteresting variations on a common theme that reliably result in publications, that's still a problem too. It also incentivises salami slicing, [0] which may result in scientific busywork. (Disclaimer: I'm not an academic.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit |
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