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Why does a high-impact publication matter so much for a career in research? – Nature (Yvonne Couch | October 2020)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on October 19, 2020
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research integrity, Research results
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Should academic science reconsider the definition of success, asks Yvonne Couch.

I am fortunate to be starting a three-year, charity-funded fellowship in neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford, UK. My first postdoctoral position was in Denmark and was for only a year. From there, I moved to Oxford to an 18-month contract and took over from a colleague who had left prematurely.

A good piece reflecting on how the pursuit of publication in a high impact journal and the very insecure existence grant-to-grant has warped academia into something that is no longer an especially attractive career path.

Since 2017, my supervisor has extended my contract, sometimes by as little as six months, using small, incremental pots of funding as and when we could find them. I was lucky to be funded at all. Statistics show that this kind of patchwork career path might not necessarily help when it comes to building a long-term future in academia. I was lucky to get my fellowship, but others won’t be as lucky as I’ve been.

I can’t help but feel that for early-career academics like me, some skills — beyond the acquisition of money — are currently not being acknowledged or supported, such as the ability to juggle teaching, grant applications, writing papers and the work of actually doing research. This is not to mention the activities that are now required for many grants, such as public engagement and outreach, or indeed those that are not even acknowledged but are assumed to be part of the job description, such as reviewing papers and grants and organizing conferences. These requirements are all there to judge one thing: our capacity to succeed in academia.

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(China) China bans cash rewards for publishing papers – Nature (Smriti Mallapaty | February 2020)

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Perish not publish? New study quantifies the lack of female authors in scientific journals – The Conversation (Ione Fine and Alicia Shen | March 2018)

Publish or perish in China – Nature (Jane Qiu | January 2010)

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