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Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education issued "Several Opinions on Standardizing the Use of Relevant Indicators of SCI Papers in Colleges and Universities and Establishing Correct Evaluation Orientation", focusing on issues such as "Only Papers" and "SCI Papers First", aiming at promoting the scientific research in colleges and universities to turn to high-quality development.
In fact, SCI is only a document retrieval tool, with its specific screening angle, logic and standards. It's just overuse and distortion.
What's the problem? First of all, financial investment in science and technology needs performance audit and the support of performance indicators. Scientific research organizations in colleges and universities have a strong "administrative" color, and they also need "grasping hands" to promote related work. As a result, in some universities, SCI papers have become indicators of scientific research level and discipline construction performance, and even become "baton" of scientific research activities.
Secondly, after the reform and opening-up, in the international academic competition in most fields, universities in China are mainly in a state of "following".
When the academic level and governance maturity are not too high, choosing SCI papers and other indicators is not only the result of laziness, but also a realistic consideration for controlling costs and improving efficiency. After all, at a specific stage of development, taking SCI papers as academic evaluation indicators is simple and intuitive, and easy to understand and implement.
Relatively speaking, "breaking" is easier than "standing". When the evaluation system has been "broken" but not "established", the key to the high-quality development of scientific research in colleges and universities lies in "addition, subtraction, multiplication and division"
The key of addition lies in "adapting to the class" and establishing a perfect classification evaluation system. The laws of basic research, applied research and technological innovation are different, and the research methods and results are also different. Under normal circumstances, the basic research cycle is long, with "slow research", "deep research" and "cold research" as the mainstay, and the output is relatively uncertain.
Restore means "restore". Peer review of representative works is one of the widely used academic evaluation methods in western countries, and it has been proved to be fair and effective. This kind of governance also needs to "improve academic peer evaluation".
Multiplication refers to the "multiplier effect" of stimulating special governance, from point to line, from line to surface, and the system is perfect. Breaking the "SCI supremacy" is only a "small incision", which can open the prelude to the reform of academic evaluation in colleges and universities, starting with professional title evaluation, performance evaluation, scientific research award, talent evaluation, subject evaluation, resource allocation, institutional ranking and so on.
Promote comprehensive and in-depth reform of scientific research system and mechanism, optimize scientific and technological innovation mode and scientific research organization mode, release the innovation potential of grassroots academic organizations and researchers, realize the "great turning point" of high-quality development of scientific research in colleges and universities, and provide realistic guarantee for economic and social development.
In addition to more emphasis on input-output efficiency. From the perspective of management, molecules are related to effectiveness and can be understood as the realization of goals. Denominator refers to the human, financial, material, information, policy and other resources consumed to achieve the goal, as well as the time cost. To promote the high-quality development of scientific research in colleges and universities, we should not only pay attention to the goal realization, but also pay attention to the quality of the goal realization and the price paid for it.
It must be recognized that for colleges and universities, the resources supporting scientific research activities are limited, but the task of improving the supply of high-quality science and technology is urgent, and efforts must be made to improve the governance efficiency of the whole system.