This doesn’t mean much to be honest. The whole publication industry is kind of a careerist sham. We need less papers, but papers of better quality.
Best Paper I have ever read:
“Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?” https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184
It shows that many papers are just for puplishing and don’t have any “real scientific intentions”.
Portugal 💪
It could also mean that North Europe is focused on more popular branches of particular fields where “sexy” research is done. For example(I’m using mechanical engineering): if you develop any kind of numerical solver for solving any kind of physics phenomena it will take you years, hard work and if you are lucky you will publish two papers with a maximum of 10 citations per paper as community is small and strict. If you switch to “renewable energy”, you will become a paper-pusher with articles based on techno-economical analysis of solar/wind/hydro power plants and your citations will skyrocket.
What I want to say is that not only the number of papers is important (actually it is the last in order), and not only the quality of papers(extremely important) but in which field they are published. Academia has a habit of avoiding tough fields where they know that they will not fulfil academic demands so they turn instead to “fashionable” branches. And we should not fool ourselves into thinking that for example me publishing a feasibility study on some power plant is the same as Einstein publishing an article on General relativity.
OP; thank you for the map but it would have the same value if there was written: average number of taken dumps per country.
I work in the Swiss medical system and I can say that like 80% of publications are complete crap. Which is written so that you have career growth.
Im honestly pretty proud of that
Used to work in administration for a Norwegian university and the PhD papers were utter garbage in 90% of cases.
Maybe it has something to do with journals charging exorbitant fees to publish in them, which favors the rich countries? They can be thousands of euros.
Poland above russia, that’s all I need to see. Goodbye.
Is this by universities in that country, or by people from that country? For example, many Eastern European scientists go to the UK for research
not sure it means that much. quantity over quality. most publications are rubbish designed to increase the paper count of the authors. when you try to replicate their work it often falls apart. i’d prefer it if people published one solid paper rather than hundreds rehashing the same half-baked ideas. and then use the extra time on better research 🔬😆
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France can into Eastern Europe?
This doesn’t mean much to be honest. The whole publication industry is kind of a careerist sham. We need less papers, but papers of better quality.
Best Paper I have ever read:
“Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?”
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184
It shows that many papers are just for puplishing and don’t have any “real scientific intentions”.
Portugal 💪
It could also mean that North Europe is focused on more popular branches of particular fields where “sexy” research is done. For example(I’m using mechanical engineering): if you develop any kind of numerical solver for solving any kind of physics phenomena it will take you years, hard work and if you are lucky you will publish two papers with a maximum of 10 citations per paper as community is small and strict. If you switch to “renewable energy”, you will become a paper-pusher with articles based on techno-economical analysis of solar/wind/hydro power plants and your citations will skyrocket.
What I want to say is that not only the number of papers is important (actually it is the last in order), and not only the quality of papers(extremely important) but in which field they are published. Academia has a habit of avoiding tough fields where they know that they will not fulfil academic demands so they turn instead to “fashionable” branches. And we should not fool ourselves into thinking that for example me publishing a feasibility study on some power plant is the same as Einstein publishing an article on General relativity.
OP; thank you for the map but it would have the same value if there was written: average number of taken dumps per country.
I work in the Swiss medical system and I can say that like 80% of publications are complete crap. Which is written so that you have career growth.
Im honestly pretty proud of that
Used to work in administration for a Norwegian university and the PhD papers were utter garbage in 90% of cases.
Maybe it has something to do with journals charging exorbitant fees to publish in them, which favors the rich countries? They can be thousands of euros.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7919939/
Poland above russia, that’s all I need to see. Goodbye.
Is this by universities in that country, or by people from that country? For example, many Eastern European scientists go to the UK for research
not sure it means that much. quantity over quality. most publications are rubbish designed to increase the paper count of the authors. when you try to replicate their work it often falls apart. i’d prefer it if people published one solid paper rather than hundreds rehashing the same half-baked ideas. and then use the extra time on better research 🔬😆