It is well-known that Chinese have made a great progress in science since the founding of new China, and it is no exaggeration to say that we are leaders in some realm. Of course, it is the achievement of thousands of hard-working scientists. However, I do not agree with the value system ¡®Publish or Perish¡¯.
To begin with, there are some fierce competitions in science, especially, in some research hotspots, such as, the biotechnology. Sometimes, we may find some papers in some journals are identical to our studies in hand. Actually, we find the same results just several days later. Unfortunately, we could not publish it again and we have wasted all the time, energy and money. In order to publish a certain number of papers every year, scientists must work hard day and night, therefore, they have no time to do physical exercises. It has been proved that scientists are usually not in good physical conditions. Recently, to survive, some scientists have to plagiarize other people¡¯s research results or fabricate test data. Plagiarism is not only harmful to our academia but also detrimental to our society.
In a word, ¡®Publish or Perish¡¯ is not suitable for scientists. |