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Indonesia should stop pushing its academics to chase empty indicators – NIKKEI Asia (March 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in on May 7, 2021

The Linked Original Item was Posted On March 12, 2021

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Predatory journals that print articles for a fee undermine scientific research

Prodita Sabarini is executive editor of The Conversation Indonesia, a nonprofit online media that brings together academics and journalists to produce evidence-based journalism. She is a 2019 Asia Pacific Obama Foundation Leader.

Measuring and rewarding quantity. rather than quality, obsessing over metrics, rather than quality, have predictable impacts on science in an institution and country.  This is true of all countries.  The results are sickening and what is doing to academia is alarming.

An assessment system that predominantly evaluates research performance based on journal output and citations is steering academics from developing countries like mine to chasing quantity over quality. And being exploited while doing so.

Researchers in Indonesia are the second most likely in the world to publish in dubious journals that print articles for a fee without proper scientific peer review, a process where several experts in the field review the merit of the research, according to a new study by economists Vit Machacek and Martin Srholec.

These predatory journals prey on academics whose career progressions, and therefore salary increase, are determined by credit points. They exploit the processing fees that authors pay to make articles open to the public. They pocket the payment, an average of $178, an amount close to the basic salary of an entry-level lecturer in a state university in Indonesia, without facilitating proper peer review. The papers published by predatory journals are often low-quality, with typographical and grammatical errors.

Indonesia should stop pushing its academics to chase empty indicators
Predatory journals that print articles for a fee undermine scientific research

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