The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences
The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences
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DOI：
10.1007/s11024-021-09441-w
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发表时间：
2021-04
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影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Xin Xu;A. Oancea;H. Rose
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作者：
Xin Xu;A. Oancea;H. Rose
提高大学研究生产率的激励措施在全球学术界盛行。然而，这种激励措施的理由、方法和影响以及由此产生的评价制度需要仔细研究。本文探讨了财政和职业相关的出版激励计划对研究文化的影响。它基于对来自中国的学者、大学高级管理人员和期刊编辑的75次采访的分析，中国的研究评估和奖励制度普遍依赖国际出版。本研究以人文社会科学学科为研究对象，人文社会科学学科具有鲜明的学科特色，并经历了中国自21世纪初开始引入激励机制的过程。研究结果揭示了中国学术界国际化与本土化、质与量、整体性与工具性、公平性与不公平性之间的矛盾。特别是，我们认为，全面的激励计划可能会加强高等教育中的管理文化，鼓励学术的行为客观化，并危及他们的机构。因此，我们对“一刀切”的政策制定提出了挑战，并建议各机构在发展其研究激励和评估机制时，应有机会采用道德和“以人为本”的方法。
Incentives for improving research productivity at universities prevail in global academia. However, the rationale, methodology, and impact of such incentives and consequent evaluation regimes are in need of scrutinization. This paper explores the influences of financial and career-related publishing incentive schemes on research cultures. It draws on an analysis of 75 interviews with academics, senior university administrators, and journal editors from China, a country that has seen widespread reliance on international publication counts in research evaluation and reward systems. The study focuses on humanities and social sciences (HSS) as disciplinary sites, which embody distinct characteristics and have experienced the introduction of incentive schemes in China since the early 2000s. Findings reveal tensions between internationalization and indigenization, quality and quantity, integrity and instrumentalism, equity and inequity in Chinese academia. In particular, we argue that a blanket incentive scheme could reinforce a managerial culture in higher education, encourage performative objectification of academics, and jeopardize their agency. We thereby challenge ‘one-size-fits-all’ policymaking, and suggest instead that institutions should have the opportunity to adopt an ethical and ‘human-oriented’ approach when developing their research incentives and evaluation mechanisms.