Intended and unintended consequences of a publish-or-perish culture: A worldwide survey
By Hendrik P. van Dalen, Kene Henkens. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2012
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How does publication pressure in modern-day universities affect the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries, the authors show that the large majority perceive the publication pressure as high, but more so in Anglo-Saxon countries and to a lesser extent in Western Europe. However, scholars see both the pros (upward mobility) and cons (excessive publication and uncitedness, neglect of policy issues, etc.) of the so-called publish-or-perish culture. By measuring behavior in terms of reading and publishing, and perceived extrinsic rewards and stated intrinsic rewards of practicing science, it turns out that publication pressure negatively affects the orientation of demographers towards policy and knowledge sharing. There are no signs that the pressure affects reading and publishing outside the core discipline. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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- Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “A worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries found that ‘traditional’ academic tasks - such as writing referee reports or translating research outcomes for policy - are negatively affected by a move toward rewarding individual productivity (van Dalen and Henkens 2012).”