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are even setting research grant targets. Don’t achieve the target, don’t get promoted…or worse. Conversely, achieve the target, you get promoted. But here’s the thing. I’m not

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departments are quite happy about how they are run. Kings College London, Warwick University and Queen Mary College London have been just as brutal as Imperial. But in these places nobody has di...

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high level esteem markers.  Some Institutions have come under scrutiny and (from some quarters) significant criticism for their managerial tactics.  Some suggestions of bullying tactics have b...

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not publishing well, and bringing in grant funding, you don’t have tenure to fall back on and could find yourself out of work after a seemingly good

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We have to; it’s part, indeed, the main part of our assessment (http://www.dcscience.net/?p=5388). As I have said before, this is now the only reason I publish in this way

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grants, research time) for the good of the cause, keeping in mind that doing so might also mean losing your job.

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grants, research time) for the good of the cause, keeping in mind that doing so might also mean losing your job.

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grants, research time) for the good of the cause, keeping in mind that doing so might also mean losing your job.

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which journals they published in, or how much grant income they generated. But it’s the metrics, rather than the advancement of knowledge, that scientists are increasingly incentivized to focu...

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the reason that I have described the Queen Mary procedures as insane, brainless and dimwitted is because their aim to increase their ratings is likely to be

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1) The pressure to publish in “Top Journals” means it’s worth massaging the data (or just making it up). That this obsession with counting (and with Impact Factors) will lead to fraud has ...

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better than me, publications in NPG journals can make or break the career of a young researcher – or, indeed, more established scientists  - because an inordinate amount of prestige and impor...

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But it’s not taken off yet.  A common argument is that scientists are under pressure and the system encourages fraud (see letter, section entitled 3rd July). To me, people with no principles ...

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research career levels; • Universities treat successful grant applications as outputs, upon which continued careers depend; • Statistical analyses are hard, and sometimes researchers get it ...

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career levels;• Universities treat successful grant applications as outputs, upon which continued careers depend;• Statistical analyses are hard, and sometimes researchers get it wrong;• ...

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