Björn Brembs has translated his Laborjournal article about research assessment at the Germin Research financing body DFG into English:
Research Assessment, New Panels, New Luck?
How will disillusioned researchers, who may have had high hopes for DORA/CoARA, react if the institutions’ voluntary commitments ultimately turn out to be mere signal politics without consequences? The efforts to modernize research assessment, as described above, are based on the evidence that the race to submit more and more publications to the highest-ranking journals rewards unreliable science and punishes reliable science [7]. The elimination of the number of publications and the reputation of the journals from research assessment, the logic goes, would also eliminate significant drivers of unreliable science.
[7] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.201800037/full
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