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Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure
- Source :
- PLoS Biology, PLoS Biology, 2018, 16 (3), pp.e2004089. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.2004089⟩, PLoS Biology, Public Library of Science, 2018, 16 (3), pp.e2004089. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.2004089⟩, PLoS Biology, Vol 16, Iss 3, p e2004089 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2018.
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Abstract
- International audience; Assessment of researchers is necessary for decisions of hiring, promotion, and tenure. A burgeoning number of scientific leaders believe the current system of faculty incentives and rewards is misaligned with the needs of society and disconnected from the evidence about the causes of the reproducibility crisis and suboptimal quality of the scientific publication record. To address this issue, particularly for the clinical and life sciences, we convened a 22-member expert panel workshop in Washington, DC, in January 2017. Twenty-two academic leaders, funders, and scientists participated in the meeting. As background for the meeting, we completed a selective literature review of 22 key documents critiquing the current incentive system. From each document, we extracted how the authors perceived the problems of assessing science and scientists, the unintended consequences of maintaining the status quo for assessing scientists, and details of their proposed solutions. The resulting table was used as a seed for participant discussion. This resulted in six principles for assessing scientists and associated research and policy implications. We hope the content of this paper will serve as a basis for establishing best practices and redesigning the current approaches to assessing scientists by the many players involved in that process.
- Subjects :
- Employee Incentive Plans
0301 basic medicine
Science and Technology Workforce
Science Policy
Status quo
QH301-705.5
Best practice
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[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Bibliometrics
Biology
Careers in Research
Research and Analysis Methods
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
Promotion (rank)
Citation analysis
Humans
Biology (General)
Scientific Publishing
media_common
Research Monitoring
General Immunology and Microbiology
Unintended consequences
business.industry
Research
General Neuroscience
Reproducibility of Results
Research Assessment
Public relations
Faculty
[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]
Professions
Laboratory Personnel
030104 developmental biology
Incentive
Research Design
Perspective
People and Places
Citation Analysis
Research Reporting Guidelines
Scientists
Population Groupings
Science policy
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15449173 and 15457885
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS Biology, PLoS Biology, 2018, 16 (3), pp.e2004089. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.2004089⟩, PLoS Biology, Public Library of Science, 2018, 16 (3), pp.e2004089. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.2004089⟩, PLoS Biology, Vol 16, Iss 3, p e2004089 (2018)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0b5137bd0787a71676ac7dd79065b818