> 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.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou > <mailinglist.honey...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
