[LMU-OSC News] Journal Club: Doing good research should not be bad for your career

[LMU Open Science Center News]

Hello all,

after a longer break, we are back and would like to invite you to the third meeting of our Journal Club “ReproJuicebiliTea”, this time on the topic:
Doing good research should not be bad for your career (abstract see below).

When? Friday, 09.07.21, 14:30 - 16:00
Where? Via Zoom: Meeting ID: 917 8852 1090 / Password: Replicate (https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/91788521090?pwd=QmJPeEZLcGtYeGlmeGFnazVoUVFzQT09)
Procedure: We will start with a short talk about the paper (around 30min) and then continue with an open discussion in which you can contribute your own thoughts and questions.

As before, the Journal Club will consist of open talk sessions for discussing Open Science, reproducibility, and other related issues and will be explicitly open to all disciplines and institutions to create the most interesting interchange.

However, we have slightly revised the concept and intend to invite the speaker(s) of the respective paper that will be discussed in each session. A short talk by the speaker is planned for each session and allows for direct interaction and discussion with the author afterwards. You will find a short abstract for the introductory talk by our first guest below: Daniel Leising (TU Dresden) will present an interesting preprint about how to change incentive structures in academia. In the next days, you will receive the preprint as preparation for this session.



We are looking forward to seeing you soon.
Your organisation team
Laura Goetz, Stephan Nuding & Leonhard Schramm


Doing good research should not be bad for your career
Daniel Leising, TU Dresden



Many of the now well-documented problems with research integrity are rooted in the current incentive structure in academia: We earn rewards by publishing a lot, getting cited a lot, and acquiring lots of grant money. All of this is possible, however, without contributing much to scientific knowledge. The question of whether we actually help solve important intellectual or even practical problems is at risk of becoming irrelevant. Moreover, the current system is easily gamed by those whose motives are not primarily scientific in nature. Being diligent in your research may easily mean the end of your career. Given that most of our work is tax-funded, and tax-payers rightfully expect some credible return on their investment, I argue that we need a radical overhaul of our incentive system: Scientists need to be explicitly rewarded for doing good work, not just lots of work.

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