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Painful Publishing Martin Raff, Alexander Johnson, and Peter Walter Science 4 July 2008 321: 36より引用:
One problem with the current publication process arises from the overwhelming importance given to papers published in high-impact journals such as Science. Sadly, career advancement can depend more on where you publish than what you publish. Consequently, authors are so keen to publish in these select journals that they are willing to carry out extra, time-consuming experiments suggested by referees, even when the results could strengthen the conclusions only marginally. All too often, young scientists spend many months doing such "referees'experiments." Their time and effort would frequently be better spent trying to move their project forward rather than sideways. There is also an inherent danger in doing experiments to obtain results that a referee demands to see. Although we emphasize these problems with regard to the highest-impact journals, the same problems occur with other journals.
ということだそうだ。わぉ、タイムリー(笑。とはいえ、なかなかつっぱねるっていうのもできないんだよねぇ。わたしゃ小心者ですけぇ。
いきなり内閣府から電話があって何事かとびっくりしたのだが、大学の後輩だった。調べ物があったようだが、ついでに近況なぞをごにょごにょ。久しぶりに元気な声を聞いてうれしかった。