Just some background info on the above and their mindset and how this might play out.
QMUL appears to be a very badly run organisation and that is why Peter White has not been reigned in and allowed to run amok with the PACE trial, harming and smearing patients and racking up £250,000 legal bill.
QMUL have sacked good researchers based on "a count of the number of papers published, and on the impact factor of the journal in which the papers appeared."
That is all that counts- they have sought to go up the league tables and other ethical considerations have just fallen by the way side. It has all been about the money that Peter White can bring in from the likes of the DWP, never mind the ethics of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gaskell#Controversy
Further reading here:
http://www.dcscience.net/2012/08/16...en-mary-university-of-london-makes-a-cock-up/
http://blog.jfallen.org/2015/06/10/the-devil-in-the-detail-fanismissirlis/
Queen Mary: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition by Prof John Allen and Prof Fanis Missirlis
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60697-7/fulltext
Bullying at Barts by Richard Horton
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60434-6/abstract
Professor Fanis Missirlis has tweeted this
Thanks to Professor Fanis Missirlis who brought this info to us
QMUL appears to be a very badly run organisation and that is why Peter White has not been reigned in and allowed to run amok with the PACE trial, harming and smearing patients and racking up £250,000 legal bill.
QMUL have sacked good researchers based on "a count of the number of papers published, and on the impact factor of the journal in which the papers appeared."
That is all that counts- they have sought to go up the league tables and other ethical considerations have just fallen by the way side. It has all been about the money that Peter White can bring in from the likes of the DWP, never mind the ethics of it.
Controversy[edit]
One of Queen Mary University of London’s strategic aims is to build upon the institution's global research impact as measured by, among other things, ranking in league tables.
In 2012, during a reorganisation in The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, critics claimed that several staff members were dismissed on grounds of redundancy while similar posts were advertised, and the grounds for dismissal were based on a count of the number of papers published, and on the impact factor of the journal in which the papers appeared. These criteria are widely regarded as being poor indicators of the worth of individual scientists.[3] Articles and letters in The Times,[4] and in Times Higher Education,[5] and on blogs discussed the claims.[6] Queen Mary has responded to these criticisms with a Frequently Asked Questions document[7] and a comment piece by Simon Gaskell in Times Higher Education.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gaskell#Controversy
Further reading here:
http://www.dcscience.net/2012/08/16...en-mary-university-of-london-makes-a-cock-up/
http://blog.jfallen.org/2015/06/10/the-devil-in-the-detail-fanismissirlis/
Queen Mary: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition by Prof John Allen and Prof Fanis Missirlis
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60697-7/fulltext
Bullying at Barts by Richard Horton
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60434-6/abstract
Professor Fanis Missirlis has tweeted this
Thanks to Professor Fanis Missirlis who brought this info to us
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