Re: Research Illusion

Sören Auer schrieb:
> Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>> Google scholar provides citation counts, which while still a
>> fairly rough measure, does include an idea of the importance
>> of any piece of work.
> 
> I agree that citation counts are a pretty good estimate of a works impact.
> 
> A more severe problem from my point of view is the distribution of 
> research funds.
> 
> Existing paradigms seem to be either biased towards large established 
> organizations or well-connected, long established individuals. For 
> innovative ideas and younger researchers it is much harder.
> 
> I have the vision that research communities' crowd intelligence could be 
> employed in the Web 2.0 style for deciding about research funding [1].

Check out Aaron Sloman's idea of a weighted lottery
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/lottery.html

Steffen

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> --Sören
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> [1] http://wiki.cofundos.org/
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