{"id":2123,"date":"2022-02-22T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:22:48","slug":"article-its-time-to-end-canadas-obsession-with-research-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/article-its-time-to-end-canadas-obsession-with-research-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: It\u2019s time to end Canada\u2019s obsession with research quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind.<\/p>\n

BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | FEB 14 2022<\/div>\n
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Australia\u2019s national health research funder has acted to restrict assessment of each applicant to its marque research competitions to only 10 publications from the last decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At most, just 10. Let that sink in.<\/p>\n

No need to maintain or submit a Common CV to detail every sliver of every publication, engagement, or talk you were ever even tangentially part of. No journal impacts or H-index. Just 10 publications over 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>What led to this bold leadership move from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)? The council clarified<\/a>: it\u2019s about valuing research quality over quantity. Truly incentivizing research that is rigorous, transparent, and reproducible. Contribution is crucial: applicants must not only explain<\/a> how each publication contributed knowledge and quality, but also convey the publication\u2019s impact and its contributions to their leadership.<\/p>\n

That movement you now feel are the heavyweights of Canada\u2019s research community shifting uneasily in their (endowed) chairs. What to lean your external credibility and inner confidence on if it\u2019s not your 220 publications? It may also be the indignation of departments and institutions which for years have predicated their reward structures, celebrations, and identities on doing lots of research.<\/p>\n

Yet, this change heralds no doomsday \u2014 it\u2019s change the world urgently needs.<\/p>\n

To read more, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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