Kenneth Ruud
@kennethruud
Director General of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment & prof. in theoretical chemistry UiT. Twitters largely about science and science policy.
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25-01-2013 22:03:48
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Improving conditions a ‘lost cause’, say quitting UK academics timeshighereducation.com/news/improving… via Times Higher Education
Russian research ‘increasingly isolated’ amid Ukraine war timeshighereducation.com/news/russian-r… via Times Higher Education
‘Surname strategies’ help authors beat citation alphabet bias timeshighereducation.com/news/surname-s… via Times Higher Education
It seems we as a researcher community need to ask ourselves some tough questions: “Researchers are willing to trade their results for journal prestige: results from a discrete choice experiment” osf.io/preprints/osf/… via Center for Open Science
Junior researchers ‘cited more if PhD supervisor is well known’ timeshighereducation.com/news/junior-re… via Times Higher Education
Worth a few minutes reflection: Does research funding competition risk prioritising high-quality research over research that best can mitigate societal challenges? "The Rat Race for Research Funding Delays Scientific Progress" undark.org/2024/08/15/res… via Undark Magazine
Working in a Norwegian governmental institution, we are expected to increase efficiency. Perhaps also something publishers should consider, given that the APC for an individual article on average has increased by 26% over the past 4 years. eldiario.es/1_affa4a via elDiario.es