Academic Research in the 21st Century¶
Edwards, M. A., & Roy, S. (2017). Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition. Environmental Engineering Science, 34(1), 51-61.
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Primes¶
- Rent Seeking
- Politics and governance — the distinction between productive and political entrepreneurs; the accumulation of parasitic intermediaries; revolving-door dynamics. Legal systems — strategic litigation, vexatious filings, and forum-shopping that consume legal resources to redistribute claims rather than resolve genuine disputes. Academic and scientific institutions — citation games, metric-gaming, conference-track capture, and grant capture — effort spent on prestige-channel manipulation rather than knowledge production.
This sourceDocuments metric-gaming, citation manipulation, and prestige-channel capture as effort diverted from knowledge production.
- Politics and governance — the distinction between productive and political entrepreneurs; the accumulation of parasitic intermediaries; revolving-door dynamics. Legal systems — strategic litigation, vexatious filings, and forum-shopping that consume legal resources to redistribute claims rather than resolve genuine disputes. Academic and scientific institutions — citation games, metric-gaming, conference-track capture, and grant capture — effort spent on prestige-channel manipulation rather than knowledge production.
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