*NISO Virtual Conference*, *Is This Still Working? Incentives to Publish
Metrics and New Reward Systems*
<https://www.niso.org/events/2019/02/still-working-incentives-publish-metrics-and-new-reward-systems>

*Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Noon – 4p.m. *


The primary selling point of metrics for the academic researcher was the
promise that the proof provided by such metrics of the value of one’s work
would be the increased and long-term funding needed to *do* such work.
Prestige, tenure, influence, even celebrity -- these have been stepping
stones to securing significant (and much-needed) grants to educational
institutions of all sizes and types. But have these incentives been
subverted over time or in specific ways? Is the drive to publish-or-perish
the best mechanism for encouraging substantive study? The integrity of the
publishing process and perhaps the integrity of the funding model for
higher education itself is at stake. This session will look at some of the
troubling questions surrounding the incentives offered to the working
scholar, researcher, and scientist.



Presenters in this virtual conference will consider the following questions:

·      How might institutions and research facilities best weld available
indicators of use or influence into a meaningful metric?

·      If individual scholarship is best gauged by the value assigned to it
by the larger community, then what collection of metrics should be gathered
for purposes of determining appropriate rewards in the context of academia?

·      How might institutions better address this challenge and reward
faculty appropriately?



Committed speakers include:

   - *Holly Falk-Krzesinski,* Vice President, Research Intelligence,
   Elsevier
   - *Mike Taylor*, Head of Metrics Development, Digital Science
   - *Christine Casey*, Editor, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
   Centers for Disease Control
   - *Dave Kochalko*, Founder, Artifacts
   - *Jonathan Adams*, Director, ISI, Clarivate Analytics



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