{
  "abstract": "The “publish or perish” doctrine has been responsible, at least in part, for many deleterious effects on academic practice. Many proposals have been made, outlining methods that might help mitigate the problems. These include: training courses on research integrity, scholarship, and good scientific writing; the use of software to detect plagiarism; ranking universities according to quality; sanctioning policy makers; and making institutions and their leaders accountable. Unfortunately, it seems doubtful that such approaches, even if applied in concert, would make much difference, since they would be largely directed at those who are likely to maintain academic probity, rather than the miscreants. In the UK, abandoning the research assessment exercise known as the “Research Excellence Framework,” whatever that slogan means, might help, and it would certainly relieve universities of the intolerable bureaucratic stress of the current system.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Jeffrey K Aronson"
    }
  ],
  "title": "When I use a word . . . “Publish or perish”: problems and solutions",
  "uid": "2deccaeb-d252-5538-82eb-f479d193eeb3"
}