And yet the system of incentives that drives academic advancement — grants, publications, and tenure decisions — rarely rewards openness.
Social relations bind it all together, with access to the keys to the kingdom – grants, publications, jobs, collaborations - dependent on the judgment of one's peers.
Variables selected for this study reflecting the concepts of knowledge creation and dissemination include the following: patents filed, patents granted, publications, and presentations at conferences.
Working from a concept similar to that created for the CPRS, variables are organized along the following lines: ● Knowledge creation and dissemination (measured by patents filed, patents granted, publications, and presentations at conferences).
Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D.s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.
"Everyone worries about getting grants when they take up faculty jobs," he says, "but the biggest problem of all is keeping personnel!" Mentoring helps to keep your scientists focused, he says, and ensures there is "a solid data stream for grants, publications, and seminars".
The rise of "Academicus LeBronicus" is another cause: the self-serving free agent careerist in pursuit of individual gain in the currency of grants, publications, and fame.
B-School rankings, for the last few decades, have determined admissions, salaries, grants, publications in major journals and other factors linked closely to these numbers.
For example, portfolio analysis by agencies, companies, and universities requires partitioning of their portfolios (e.g. grants, publications, patents) into coherent and organizationally meaningful groups prior to the computation and reporting of metrics for each group.
In academic medicine, evaluation of career performance mainly focuses on research activities, grants, publications, and faculty posts.
