Subject: Re: (off-topic) self-plagiarism From: "Iftikhar Riaz (Lance) Nizami" <Nizamii2@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:09:01 EDT List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>-------------------------------1246997341 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fred Herzfeld is partly right, in that he explains the trigger for breaches of ethics. Currently, academic success is based on filling quotas, which, as mature people know, always produces absurdities. (Consider the ratio of PhD production to job production.) But plagiarism occurs not because of stress, but because of what persons of bad character are willing to do when under stress. And that, boys and girls, is our psychology lesson for today ... - Lance Nizami In a message dated 7/7/2009 3:45:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, herzfeld@xxxxxxxx writes: Dear List I find it interesting that we discuss what a reviewer or editor should do how to behave. Not one word of why this happens. It happens (my personal opinion) that there are a number of reasons: 1. For members of the academic community there is the well known PP. Many schools require at least one, but hopefully more, publications per year to promote an academic to assistant professor or higher. That is how Publish or Perish came along. 2. For members of industrial research organizations (Bell Labs, the former David Sarnoff Research Center, and many others) the number of publications reflects on your salary and internal and external promotions. 3. From 1 and 2 above we can conclude that the number of publications we can list on our CV contributes in some proportion to the increases in our salaries (among other factors), and in the eligibility for promotion to some higher research or management level. 4. From 1,2,and 3 I am led to the conclusion that the problem lies not in ourselves buy in our employers. Fred ========================================== Fred Herzfeld, MIT '54 78 Glynn Marsh Drive #59 Brunswick, Ga.31525 USA **************Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals. (http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003) -------------------------------1246997341 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16850" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY= : Arial" bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Dr= ole_document face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>Fred Herzfeld is partly right, in that he explains the trigger for br= eaches of ethics. Currently, academic success is based on filling quotas, which,= as mature people know, always produces absurdities. (Consider the ratio of Ph= D production to job production.) But plagiarism occurs not because of stress= , but because of what persons of bad character are willing to do when under stre= ss. And that, boys and girls, is our psychology lesson for today ... - Lance= Nizami</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/7/2009 3:45:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, herzfeld@xxxxxxxx writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"= ><FONT style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 siz= e=3D2>Dear List<BR><BR>I find it interesting that we discuss what a reviewer or edi= tor should do how to behave. Not one <BR>word of why this happens. It= happens (my personal opinion) that there are a number of reasons:<BR><BR>1. For members of the academic community th= ere is the well known PP. Many schools require at least <BR>one, but hopefully= more, publications per year to promote an academic to assistant professor or= <BR>higher. That is how Publish or Perish came along.<BR><BR>2. &n= bsp; For members of industrial research organizations (Bell Labs, the former= David Sarnoff Research <BR>Center, and many others) the number of publications= reflects on your salary and internal and <BR>external promotions.<BR><BR>3. From 1 and 2 above we can conclude th= at the number of publications we can list on our CV <BR>contributes in some proportion to the increases in our salaries (among other factors), and= in the <BR>eligibility for promotion to some higher research or management level.<BR><BR>4. From 1,2,and 3 I am led to the conclusion= that the problem lies not in ourselves buy in our <BR>employers.<BR><BR>Fred<BR>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D<BR><BR>Fred Herzfeld, MIT '54<BR>78 Glynn Marsh Drive #59<BR>Brunswick, Ga.31525<BR>USA<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT><DIV CLASS=3D"aol_ad= _footer" ID=3D"5c6e0a944bb8d1302d30ac3abf31e4eb"><br/><font style=3D"color= :black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style=3D"margin-top:10px"/>= Looking for love this summer? <a href=3D"http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=3D= emlcntuslove00000003">Find it now on AOL Personals</a>.</font></DIV></BODY= ></HTML> -------------------------------1246997341--