Changing incentives to publish

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6043, 2011, Pages 702-703

  Franzoni, Chiara ^a   Scellato, Giuseppe ^b,c   Stephan, Paula ^d,e,f  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c Collegio Carlo Alberto ^*  (Italy)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INCENTIVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STATE ROLE;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CAREER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GOVERNMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SALARY; SCIENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER MOBILITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MOTIVATION; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

UNITED STATES;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER MOBILITY; INTERNATIONALITY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; POLICY; PUBLISHING; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SCIENCE;

EID: 79961244078     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197286     Document Type: Article

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