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Re:Harvard ethics prof fabricated multiple behavioral scienc... by chongli on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:04PM (#36668326)
The policies that cause 'publish or perish' to flourish

What policies are those? I thought 'publish or perish' was an expected outcome given the extreme supply/demand situation in the academic job market.

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Re:Harvard ethics prof fabricated multiple behavioral scienc... by barelysurviving on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:24PM (#36671630)
My gf is in academia (in economics) and she told me that to get a tenure you sign contracts demanding you’ll publish 4-5 relevant research papers in 5 years. A geologist friend of mine told me something similar, just with different numbers.
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