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What Publication Metrics Can Be Used to Identify Research Leaders?

Posted November 09, 2011 7:15 AM

What publication-based metric or set of metrics do you think offers a better way to identify leaders in a certain technology area? How much confidence do you have in the research publications originating in countries other than your own? Is there, or should there be, a global standard for measuring the value of technical and scientific publications?

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11/09/2011 10:41 PM

It is not understandable, that you do not wish to trust on research originated from other than your own country.

Are you sure that someone from your country himself has measured the distance between say Earth and moon? Still you trust the figures. You can not go ahead without trusting others also.

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11/10/2011 12:39 AM

Such as what?

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11/10/2011 2:21 AM

Why don't they create an arm of UN similar to UNESCO,WHO etc to study and certify research papers instead of leaving it to local professors.

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Re: What Publication Metrics Can Be Used to Identify Research Leaders?

11/10/2011 9:18 AM

That would be another waste of money.

To judge someone's research, you need to be competent. There is an almost infinite number of research subject. How many experts do you want to hire?

The peer review system used to work fairly well until it became politicized and ran by bureaucrats who don't understand the research. They now distribute grants based on the number of publications and the political objective of the money provider. The decision doesn't have much to do with the quality of the research.

Most researchers work very hard and do their best to obtain the truth. They are unfortunately burdened by tons of paperwork to apply for grants to the point that research become a small part of their daily activity.

The present bureaucratic system rewards the "researchers" that are better at writing science fiction novels than doing real research. These individuals amaze the bureaucrats with their grant applications and receive tons of money often based on speculation, lies, and made up data. Only a real peer review system can discover these frauds. These days, when fraud is discovered, it is often hidden to "protect" the research institution. Only a few cases are prosecuted.

This can only be solved by changing our mentality and invest in quality instead of quantity (difficult to measure for a bureaucrat). We are not heading that way as the system is getting too big and heavy. Making it heavier by involving the UN or other money wasting bureaucrat agencies will not help.

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