What's wrong with Science? Modeling the collective discovery processes with the Nobel game
What's wrong with Science? Modeling the collective discovery processes with the Nobel game
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-016-2109-9
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Chavalarias, David
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作者：
Chavalarias, David
学者们面临着越来越大的压力，要求他们发表文章以进一步或维持学术界的职业生涯。政府和资助机构渴望基于科学产出的指标来衡量科学产出。但我们对出版水平与科学进步之间的关系到底了解多少呢？社会动态和规范如何干扰科学生产的质量？科学动力学是否存在不同的机制？本研究通过对科学政策与学者探索-利用困境之间的关系进行建模，提出了一些思考科学动态的概念。顺便，我们详细分析了“出版或灭亡”政策的影响，事实证明，该政策对新兴科学领域的发展没有显着影响，但对成熟领域的生产质量产生了不利影响。
There is an increasing pressure on scholars to publish to further or sustain a career in academia. Governments and funding agencies are greedy of indicators based on scientific production to measure science output. But what exactly do we know about the relation between publication levels and advances in science? How do social dynamics and norms interfere with the quality of the scientific production? Are there different regimes of scientific dynamics? The present study proposes some concepts to think about scientific dynamics, through the modeling of the relation between science policies and scholars' exploration-exploitation dilemmas. Passing, we analyze in detail the effects of the "publish or perish" policy, that turns out to have no significant effects in the developments of emerging scientific fields, while having detrimental impacts on the quality of the production of mature fields.