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(Germany) Institutions can retool to make research more rigorous – Nature (Ulrich Dirnagl | October 2020)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on October 27, 2020
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On October 14, 2020

A circular dial shows a scale going from quantity up to quality

Big moves to rebuild the scientific infrastructure are possible.

Five years ago, I was part of a small group of ‘activists’ who convinced the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), where I work, to try out a set of reforms intended to improve the trustworthiness, usefulness and ethics of research. Things grew from there: three years ago, with the help of government grants and some nudging by a retired local politician, we secured €2.5 million (US$2.9 million) per year for efforts to build up incentives and technologies that increase rigour.

A thoroughly impressive example of a researcher-driven push to reward quality over quantity.  This is how to drive research culture positively rather than turn learned institutions into sausage factories.  We have included links to eleven related items.

We were inspired by initiatives at other universities, such as the reforms that Frank Miedema introduced during his deanship at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. But when the QUEST Center (QUEST stands for Quality, Ethics, Open Science and Translation) launched at the BIH, there was no precedent or blueprint for a programme of this scale.

From the beginning, we presumed that researchers and clinician–scientists are skilled professionals who want to ‘do the right thing’ but are also under pressure to accrue publications to advance their careers. Doing quality research takes time and humility, so unless we changed the system, researchers who pursued quality-enhancing practices could have found themselves at a disadvantage.

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Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads – NewsIn Asia (Editor | July 2020)

(Australia) UTS loses application to appeal against reinstatement of academic sacked for not publishing enough research – Sydney Morning Herald (Anna Patty | July 2020)

‘Broken access’ publishing corrodes quality – Nature (Adriano Aguzzi | June 2019)

How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry – Issues in Science and Technology (Mark Neff | January 2020)

(China) How China’s New Policy May Change Researchers’ Publishing Behavior – Scholarly Kitchen (Dr. Jie Xu | March 2020)

The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (Edward Archer | January 2020)

Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature – Scholarly Kitchen (Rick Anderson | October 2019)

The Rise of Junk Science – The Walrus (Alex Gillis | July 2019)

SPEECH: Actions to advance research integrity – Dr Alan Finkel AO (6th World Conference on Research Integrity | June 2019)

To move research from quantity to quality, go beyond good intentions – Nature ( Alan Finkel | February 2019)

Don’t pay prizes for published science – Nature (July 2017)

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