Hmm... you know I'd love to run a study on how software and other
information displays affect the speed, accuracy and reliability with which
people make insights about data.

Tom

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> > Last time, I was told that I couldn't list my R package and associated
> papers as a research activity with
> > substantial impact because it was outside my official scope of work.
> (Even though I wrote it so I could
> > *do* my work.)
>
> That seems wrong.  My impression is that "method" papers were frequent
> "citation
> classics <http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics.html>".  Why should a
> software method paper be treated worse than a (e.g.) chemical method paper?
>
>           -s
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:58, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou
> > <mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> Some of the money I earn from these courses goes to pay for my summer
> > >> salary and supports student research. It also gives me confidence that
> > >> if I don't get tenure because I've been writing R packages instead of
> > >> papers, I can keep doing the work I love.
> > >
> > > If that actually happens, that would be an amazing/colossal (not in a
> > > good way) testament to how well the "rating system" works in academia.
> >
> > I'm not in academia, but government research. I do go through a review
> > very similar to the tenure process. Last time, I was told that I couldn't
> > list
> > my R package and associated papers as a research activity with
> substantial
> > impact because it was outside my official scope of work. (Even though I
> > wrote it so I could *do* my work.) I have no trouble seeing academic
> > administrators do the same thing.
> >
> > Sarah
> >
> > --
> > Sarah Goslee
> > http://www.functionaldiversity.org
> >
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