Re:Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality th...
by 4258HzG on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:08PM
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#1 Reason: Blogs aren't included in the publication count which is needed to gain research funding, get hired as a professor and get tenure.
A bit cynical, but a lot of the problems the writer suggests are more of a symptom of trying to get as many papers out as possible than the cause (and that one rarely reviews the supplementary material). If scientific blogs counted like publications many of the same problems would appear there.
A bit cynical, but a lot of the problems the writer suggests are more of a symptom of trying to get as many papers out as possible than the cause (and that one rarely reviews the supplementary material). If scientific blogs counted like publications many of the same problems would appear there.