Talk about Research Productivity (Unisinos)

Henrique C. Martins

2022-08-08

My opinions are my own.

The current state in (business) science

Too many articles…

… in low-quality journals.

Scholars are doing their best

To get “tenure” (not a common concept in Brazil yet)
To increase reputation
Highly competitive environment (mental health is a problem)

Journals are doing their best to increase impact

Game of metrics
Highly competitive environment for journals

Too many articles

Brazil 60k scientific articles in 2018: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IP.JRN.ARTC.SC?locations=BR

World 2.554K scientific articles in 2018: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IP.JRN.ARTC.SC

Production of academic research is not a problem anymore.

Production of academic research is not a problem anymore. Source.

Recent problems in academic research

P-Hacking

Article here.

Recent problems in academic research

Publication bias

Article here.

Recent problems in academic research

Replication crisis

Article here.

Recent problems in academic research

Source.

Recent problems in academic research

Source.

Predatory journals

Source.

Open Science (OS)

” Open science encompasses unhindered access to scientific articles, access to data from public research, and collaborative research enabled by ICT tools and incentives.

Broadening access to scientific publications and data is at the heart of open science, so that research outputs are in the hands of as many as possible, and potential benefits are spread as widely as possible” (OCDE).

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É um movimento internacional, já presente em vários campos de pesquisa, com o objetivo de tornar a pesquisa acadêmica mais transparente, acessível e relevante.

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Exemplo relativamente recente: Dados de COVID (link).

Open Science (OS)

Dados abertos (Open Data)
Código e Materiais abertos (Open Materials)
Revisão pelos pares aberta (Open peer review)
Artigos-tutoriais
Reuso de Dados
Artigos depositados como preprints podem ser submetidos

Exemplo de política pode ser encontrada (RAC) aqui.

Revisão pelos pares aberta

Após o artigo ser aceito, revisores são convidados a permitir que sua identificação apareça na versão final do artigo.

Em paralelo, revisores e autores são convidados a permitir a publicidade do conteúdo dos seus reports e suas cartas de resposta.
- Veja um exemplo aqui

A revista não altera o conteúdo dos pareceres em nenhuma situação (erros de digitação, por exemplo, são incluídos)

Tips For Students Ethics

If you are playing the quantity game, you are playing it wrong.
- Focus on quality, your whole 30-year career is a 10-20 ABS3 papers, not a 200+ papers.

Understand the concept of a Job Market Paper (quality paper)
- Doesn’t need to be published by the end of your PhD, but senior enough to nice presentations
- It is also nice for master’s students to have a strong paper in order to get into a PhD program.

Tips For Students Ethics

Do not send articles to predatory journals
- Those that are in the market can smell it.
- If the project is not good, abandon it (instead of publishing in such journals)

Do not cheat
- The industry is getting better at finding wrongdoings.
- At the end of the day, people talk about reputation.

THANK YOU!

Henrique Castro Martins