https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/11/academia-portuguesa-necessita-de.html
quarta-feira, 25 de junho de 2025
Quantos anos é que serão necessários para que a Academia Portuguesa siga o exemplo do Imperial College London ?
quinta-feira, 19 de junho de 2025
A tragédia de milhões de recém-diplomados sem trabalho e os Engenheiros que valem muitos milhões
Ironicamente, ontem, a mesma revista noticiou que o dono da empresa criadora do ChatGPT se queixou que lhe querem roubar os seus valiosos Engenheiros, com propostas de emprego alucinantes que chegam a quase 100 milhões de dólares.
PS - Em Dezembro de 2019, divulguei a explicação de um conhecido catedrático jubilado belga, sobre o facto dos futebolistas ganharem muito mais do que os cientistas de topo, felizmente que bastaram apenas poucos anos para assistirmos a um fenómeno inédito, Engenheiros a valerem mais do que muitos futebolistas de topo.
terça-feira, 17 de junho de 2025
Quantifying Integrity: The Shortcomings of the Novel Research Integrity Risk Index
However, as previously argued in a 2021 post, the phenomenon of article retraction encompasses a broad continuum of underlying causes, which differ markedly in their implications for research integrity. Some result from relatively minor issues—such as lacking formal permission to reproduce an image, failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest, or an author withdrawing mid-process but remaining listed—while others stem from serious misconduct like data fabrication or falsification. https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-universidade-portuguesa-campea-de.html
Therefore, an integrity index such as the RI2 that treats all retractions uniformly—without distinguishing among their underlying causes or the extent of their impact on the scholarly record—risks generating misleading assessments of institutional performance. By failing to account for the severity or context of each withdrawal, it may unfairly penalize institutions with numerous low-severity retractions while allowing those with few but serious cases of misconduct to escape appropriate scrutiny.
PS - As I also noted in my 2021 post, the well-known MIT defines serious research misconduct as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or deliberate interference—explicitly excluding honest error, differences of opinion, authorship disputes, and self-plagiarism. Therefore, databases such as Scopus and Web of Science should urgently implement a distinct retraction category for serious cases of misconduct, enabling better tracking of institutions with higher rates of retractions that significantly undermine scientific integrity.