Dorothy BishopFeb 2, 2024

Guest post by Nick Wise on "remote short-term research fellowships" - where academics can earn £££ by adding the affiliation of "the University of Religions and Denominations" to their publications.

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/02/an-intellectually-enriching-opportunity.html

#fraud #research #integrity #misconduct #publishing #SalfordUni

An (intellectually?) enriching opportunity for affiliation

Guest Post by Nick Wise     A couple of months ago a professor received the following email, which they forwarded to me. ...

Show threadJohannes
@deevybee
What I cannot quite grasp is how university-wide schemes to amass publications are to have any likelihood of being worthwhile. If an individual researcher embellishes their CV with fraudulent papers that will get them ahead when their employer treats evaluation as a metrics game. But a university must face more scrutiny - and these schemes are so poorly designed, so over the top, the only way they can work if everyone closes their eyes. Who is this for? International rankings?
Feb 2, 2024 at 9:58amWeb
Show threadDorothy BishopFeb 2, 2024
@johannes_lehmann
I assume so.
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