{"id":3019,"date":"2013-02-05T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T10:04:11","slug":"the-myth-of-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/02\/05\/the-myth-of-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Academic Excellence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clker.com\/cliparts\/y\/b\/B\/t\/s\/m\/science-journal-rotated-10-th.png\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p>Walter F.Wreszinski has written a short article called &#8220;The Myth of Academic Excellence and Scientific Curiosity&#8221; in the January 2013 edition of the  News Bulletin of the International Association of Mathematical Physics [Wre]. It makes for some thought provoking reading&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>The journals which we will call top A, of high \u201cimpact factor\u201d (a rather controversial number analysed in detail in [Bin]), boast of high rejection indices, which reach 95 per cent, encouraging referees to recommend refusal in the almost totality of cases in order to justify this so important \u201cmeasure of quality.\u201d Thus, a major objective of these journals became the search for justifications to substantiate refusal, resulting in a one sided, and therefore unfair and unrealistic, view of the refereeing process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another interesting sentiment is quoted below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We see that the main obstacle to the truth becoming known was the false concept of excellence associated to peer-review in top-A journals. A rejection to publish there leads to publication in a \u201cnon top A,\u201d but this is equivalent to impart a label: the author did not succeed in publishing in top A, therefore the contribution is not first rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About Walter F.Wreszinski<\/strong><br \/>\nWalter F.Wreszinski is a native of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 at the Seminar f\u00fcr Theoretische Physik der ETH, Z\u00fcrich, in the field of mathematical physics, having Prof. Dr. K. Hepp as thesis advisor. Since 1990 he has been full professor at the Departamento de F\u00edsica Matem\u00e1tica, Instituto de F\u00edsica, USP (University of S\u00e3o Paulo). His main research interests are mathematical statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference <\/strong><br \/>\n[Bin] Mathias Binswanger, Sinnlose Wettbewerbe. Herder, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>[Wre] Walter F.Wreszinski, The Myth of Academic Excellence and Scientic Curiosity, IAMP News Bulletin, January 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamp.org\/bulletins\/Bulletin-Jan13-screen.pdf\" title=\"news bulletin\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Note added 06\/02\/2013: Wreszinski&#8217;s article also appeared in the  Brazilian Journal of Physics December 2012   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter F.Wreszinski has written a short article called &#8220;The Myth of Academic Excellence and Scientific Curiosity&#8221; in the January 2013 edition of the News Bulletin of the International Association of Mathematical Physics [Wre]. It makes for some thought provoking reading&#8230; The journals which we will call top A, of high \u201cimpact factor\u201d (a rather controversial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/02\/05\/the-myth-of-academic-excellence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Myth of Academic Excellence?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mathematics","category-physics","category-research-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}