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published in 2009-12-21 16:42:00
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The Research Information Network has just released a very interesting report (prepared by a team from the University of Loughborough and Manchester Metropolitan University) on the publication and ...
The message that comes along strongly is that researcher behaviour has been significantly influenced by the Research Assessment Exercise (soon to be the Research Excellence fr
One point noted in the report (although it is not expressed in quite this way!) is the totally stupid practice of Universities their Faculties and Departments insisting that researchers must get published in a limited list of higher-ranked journals. Sometimes the sources of the ranking are rather curious - does the Financial Times for example have the inside seek on which journals in deal and economics are 'best'? And yet there are business schools that use its ranking as the foundation for practice.
The authors do not say it except reading between the lines the RAE (and even more so the yet to occur REF) is past its sell-by date. Massive change in university funding for research has now been accomplished and it is hard to see what further benefits (i.e. for government policy not research'excellence') can be achieved.
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