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China bans cash rewards for publishing papers

New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive ‘publish or perish’ culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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Chinese institutions have been told to stop paying researchers bonuses for publishing in journals, as part of a new national policy to cut perverse incentives that encourage scientists to publish lots of papers rather than focus on high-impact work.

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Nature 579, 18 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00574-8

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