I wrote a blog article about an incentivized system in academia. This article is also about the topic.
I found the videos of the "Workshop on Open Science and Research Assessment - From a European to a Local perspective" published a few days ago, talking about the incentivized system (research assessment). The video has part 1 (2h), and part 2 (1.5h). It's long. But don't worry. The most key or interesting part for me was the part 1: from 2:34 to 13:30 (11 minutes). It's about what the motivation is to reform the current research assessment.
- Part 1
- Keynote: Javier Lopez Albacete. EC (European Commission) Policy Officer for Open Science. - a perspective from the EU side.
- Keynote: Paul Boselie. Head of Department at the Utrecht University (UU) School of Governance and Chair UU Recognition & Rewards, Open Science - a perspective from the university side.
- Part 2: Keynotes and panel discussion. Pespectives from the funding organization side. The topic is mainly about Spain or Catalonia.
Workshop on Open Science and Research Assessment - From a European to a Local perspective (part 1) youtu.be
The key slide below is at 3:34.
According to the video, the current research assessment is by a quantity of the papers, and the journal impact factor. And in my impression, the key challenges are:
- Inappropriate behaviors to get the rewards.
- The evolving research process requires collaboration and openness.
Another interesting topic is In the part 2 video a speaker from a funding organization shared that he uses software called BioBERT to filter what they fund, in my understanding, it is like a bio version of the ChatGPT. And there is also BioGPT from Microsoft as a similar software. What will happen if everyone can generate the papers by using these kinds of tools?
