Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 69 Issue 5

The reward system of science

Adèle Paul-Hus, Nadine Desrochers, Sarah de Rijcke, Alexander D. Rushforth

Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016)

Wei Quan, Bikun Chen, Fei Shu

The purpose of this paper is to present the landscape of the cash-per-publication reward policy in China and reveal its trend since the late 1990s.

Hobson’s choice: the effects of research evaluation on academics’ writing practices in England

Sharon Mcculloch

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of research evaluation policies and their interpretation on academics’ writing practices in three different higher education…

Academic stratospheres-cum-underworlds: when highs and lows of publication cultures meet

Tereza Stöckelová, Filip Vostal

The purpose of this paper is to link up and think through two bodies of literature, namely the critique of predatory publishing practices and the critique of political economy of…

Why do you publish? On the tensions between generating scientific knowledge and publication pressure

Nora Hangel, Diana Schmidt-Pfister

The purpose of this paper is to examine researchers’ motivations to publish by comparing different career stages (PhD students; temporarily employed postdocs/new professors;…

Incorporating data sharing to the reward system of science: Linking DataCite records to authors in the Web of Science

Philippe Mongeon, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Wei Jeng, Rodrigo Costas

It is widely recognized that sharing data is beneficial not only for science but also for the common good, and researchers are increasingly expected to share their data. However…

On the quest for currencies of science: Field “exchange rates” for citations and Mendeley readership

Rodrigo Costas, Antonio Perianes-Rodríguez, Javier Ruiz-Castillo

The introduction of “altmetrics” as new tools to analyze scientific impact within the reward system of science has challenged the hegemony of citations as the predominant source…

Making visible the invisible through the analysis of acknowledgements in the humanities

Adrian A. Díaz-Faes, María Bordons

Science is subject to a normative structure that includes how the contributions and interactions between scientists are rewarded. Authorship and citations have been the key…

The many hands of science: Commonalities and differences in the research contributions of authors and subauthors

Pär Sundling

The purpose of this paper is to identify the research contributions of authors and subauthors in order to outline how authorship, as opposed to acknowledgment, is awarded in the…

Recognition and reward in the academy: Valuing publication oeuvres in biomedicine, economics and history

Björn Hammarfelt

The publication oeuvre of a researcher carries great value when academic careers are assessed, and being recognised as a successful candidate is usually equated with being a…

A resource- and impact-based micro-level conceptualization of collaborative academic work

Eugenia Perez Vico, Olof Hallonsten

The purpose of this paper is to develop new conceptual tools for analyzing how contemporary collaborative academic work is organized on micro-level, and its social and economic…