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 > > --Sören > > [1] http://wiki.cofundos.org/ > >Received on Saturday, 9 May 2009 13:09:22 UTC
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