(eBook PDF) Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 178643492X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1786434920
- Author: Imad A. Moosa
Imad Moosa argues that this concept is a result of globalisation and the neo-liberal idea of treating higher education as a private good. Providing one of the first extensive analyses of this doctrine, the author identifies the overwhelmingly negative unintended consequences stemming from the pressure to publish research. He explores the detrimental effects of this burden, which includes the impact of drawing away the focus from educating students, to the declining quality of published research. The hazardous activity of journal ranking and resource-wasting research evaluation programmes are also considered, with the author ultimately proposing that the solution to this controversial issue is to go back to days gone by, prior to the dominance of the free market ideology.
Table contents:
1 Publish or perish: origin, evolution and conceptual issues
2 Publish or perish: ideological foundations and perceived
benefits
3 Consequences of POP: research quality and dissemination
of knowledge
4 Consequences of POP: biases and emotional damage
5 Consequences of POP: the journal industry and authorship
pattern
6 Consequences of POP: research misconduct (part 1)
7 Consequences of POP: research misconduct (part 2)
8 The peer review process
9 The ranking craze: journals
10 The ranking craze: universities
11 The way forward
People also search:
columbo publish or perish
publish or perish eso
what is publish or perish
publish or perish academia