How Pressure to Publish Impacts Research Quality
Fonte:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS_FP7&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=NEWS&QUERY=0128259d674f:02fa:0a77db8f&RCN=32013
Document Reference: Fanelli, D. (2010) Do pressures to publish increase
scientists' bias? An empirical support from US states data. PLoS ONE 5(4),
published online 21 April. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010271.
New EU-funded research shows that the ever-growing pressure to produce
publishable results can adversely impact the quality of scientific research.
Support for the work came from the OBJECTIVE SCIENCE ('Quantifying objectivity
in the natural and social sciences') project, which received more than EUR
161,000 under the People Specific Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7) to assess the level of bias in the natural and social sciences. The
research findings are published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE
journal.
Researchers worldwide produce more than 1.4 million scientific articles each
year. By investigating over 1,300 papers from disciplines ranging from physics
to sociology that declared to have tested a hypothesis, Dr Daniele Fanelli of
the University of Edinburgh in the UK found that researchers report more
'positive' results for their experiments if they are based in US states where
academics publish more frequently.
'Scientists face an increasing conflict of interest, torn between the need to
be accurate and objective and the need to keep their careers alive,' explained
Dr Fanelli, who was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship with the
objective of quantifying the objectivity in the natural and social sciences.
'While many studies have shown the deleterious effects of financial conflicts
of interests in biomedical research, no one has looked at this much broader
conflict, which might affect fields.'
Dr Fanelli used data from the US-based National Science Foundation (NSF) to
verify whether the papers' conclusions were in any way connected to the
productivity of US states, measured by the average number of papers published
by each academic.
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Prof. Murilo Bastos da Cunha, Ph. D.
Universidade de Brasilia
Dept. Ciência da Informação e Documentação (FACE-CID)
Brasilia, DF 70710-900 Brasil
Blog: http://a-informacao.blogspot.com/
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