the Danish bibliometric research indicator at work /
Poul Erik Mouritzen, Niels Opstrup.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages) :
illustrations (some color).
Public sector organizations
Includes bibliographical references.
This book gives an account of what can happen when performance management is introduced at universities. How do scholars -- for better or worse -- respond to a system which counts the number of articles and books? Many myths exist about scholar's reactions: They cheat, slice their production to the least publishable unit, become more risk averse and will go for the low-hanging fruits; in short, they develop a "taste for publication" at the cost of a "taste of science". Systematic knowledge about the consequences of such systems for the motivation, behavior and productivity of university scholars is in short supply. The book is a major contribution to remedy this situation.