Researchers disagree over whether performance-based metrics adversely affect publication behaviour.
Not specifically on research ethics or research integrity, but it does attempt to identify the way that metrics might have an impact on pressure to publish and publication outlet choices.
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In 1995, the then Australian Department of Employment, Education and Training began incorporating publication data — along with research income and postgraduate student numbers — in the formulae used to allocate funding for research and training at Australian universities. Few countries, most of them in Europe, have a national evaluation system to determine university funding, and fewer still — New Zealand, Spain, Norway and Belgium — incorporate publication metrics.
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