On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote: > On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote: > >> On Dec 7, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: >> >>> Hi All TIPSTERs: I thought that some of you might this piece worthy of >>> discussion and debate: >>> http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system > > Given my background in genetics and evolution, the first person I thought of > when I read the article about Peter Higgs was Barbara McClintock, who was > awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of > mobile genetic elements. I remember reading an article about her when I was a > graduate student (just after she was awarded the Nobel Prize) in which she > mentioned how she published papers mostly when she had something important to > report. In between publications, she collected and carefully > analyzed/interpreted the data. > > From 1925 to 1993, she had only 88 publications, an average of 1.3 per year. > Some years she published nothing (see > http://www.agron.missouri.edu/mnl/73/110kass.html ).
Hi all, I've been thinking a lot about the article that Scott sent and my own responses. And even though I now work at a community college, for the last seven years (until this past May) I was a member of the general-education committee at Arizona State University, which included many young professors on the tenure track. My conversations with some of them showed me that expectations for publications were even more demanding than when I was playing the game 20+ years ago. Some of you might be interested in the following article, published a few years back. The first author, coincidentally, works at the same university that Scott is at. June 13, 2010: The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/article/We-Must-Stop-the-Avalanche-of/65890/ We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research By Mark Bauerlein, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Wayne Grody, Bill McKelvey, and Stanley W. Trimble I don't know if it's free to nonsubscribers. If not, you can get a copy here: http://opeconomica.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/we-must-stop-the-avalanche-of-low-quality-research-commentary-the-chronicle-of-higher-education.pdf Best, Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=31106 or send a blank email to leave-31106-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
