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> Not sure what'll fix it though. Perhaps efforts to promote good science as opposed to a great one like accepting publications for failed attempts (michaelson morley style), replication results of earlier works Too often we try to solve social problems by "adding" something, whether it be adding an incentive or adding a program. I think to really solve the problem of publish or perish mentality, we first need to und…
> But how to remove the pressure? Since this is simple to answer (remove all requirements to publish frequently, and hope that a lot of journals die naturally after that), the real question is: how do we distribute funding to scientists without forcing them to frequently show their work? I could imagine a world where every scientist (starting from Ph.D student onwards) is evaluated only e.g. on the basis of a biyearl…
Today, the Year Book is little more than a glossy fundraising document.
You can view the reports over the years: https://carnegiescience.edu/about/history/publications/carne...