The current SCI assessment system has made the Chinese science and technology community very passive: ideas are being led by others, instruments are to be bought, and the results are to be published in other people's publications. Big awards such as the Nobel Prize or others are the final words.
Not long ago, Xinhua News Agency reported that the Chinese Academy of Sciences will implement the “Innovation 2020†talent strategy and strive to build a first-rate technology innovation and entrepreneurship team with appropriate scale, reasonable structure, dynamic optimization and vitality. In this context, the SCI issues that the society has called for for many years may be diluted. Previously, we relied too much on the SCI evaluation system, resulting in many ills.
First, the researchers' ideas were confined. Some scientific researchers who have returned from abroad are trained to publish SCI. Their ideas are mostly from Western instructors, or tracking internationally good SCI journals, repeating design experiments, or simply continuing to expand the scale of experiments done abroad. There is basically no original innovation. To publish SCI, there must be support for research funding, and to apply for funding, it is necessary to pass through experts. Among the standards of experts, SCI is the first priority. If researchers have a good idea, but no breakthrough in SCI, or its ideas are different from the published views of SCI, it is difficult to be approved. In this way, we cannot allow too much innovation.
Second, the energy of researchers was wasted and the best innovations were handed over to SCI articles. The best creativity of a person should be between the ages of 30 and 40. At this time, the person is most energetic, has the most ideas, and wants to do something. However, at present, the scientific research institution's system, whether scientific research personnel can issue wages, or how much, the evaluation criteria is the SCI indicators. In order to ensure basic human dignity and living needs, researchers have fallen into SCI's “slaveâ€. Now that scientific research and funding are running and funds are running with SCI, where is it allowed to develop according to their research interests?
Third, all the people learn English and waste enormous educational resources. At present, studying English accounts for more than half of the time for graduate students. The results of the researchers also require the publication of SCI. The SCI publications are mostly English publications. After the article was published, people in the country looked at it again. Instead, they had to pay copyright fees to other people, and they had to organize people to translate it back. This limited the dissemination of the entire Chinese scientific research idea. In fact, the Chinese published the SCI, but people did not believe it, and they refused to cite it. This caused a huge waste of Chinese science and technology resources.
Fourth, the instruments and equipment researched by scientists have been monopolized by foreign countries, and the research and development of domestic instruments have been suppressed. To write SCI, scientists must have data, and the data needs scientific research instruments. The current level of quality of scientific research instruments is sure to be good in Western developed countries. Therefore, Chinese scholars must publish instruments for people to sell SCI. Suppressed the development of domestic equipment. “For workers to be good at things, they must first sharpen their tools.†Instrument inventions and improvements are very important innovations. However, in order to publish SCI, Chinese scientists are unwilling to engage in such innovation, and second, they are reluctant to buy home-made instruments. Many countries open laboratories and frequently own tens of millions of dollars of equipment, but there is almost no domestic product.
Fifth, domestic publications were suppressed and they were forced to publish low-level articles. Since many organizations stipulate that the publication of domestic journal articles is not counted, so good articles are “out of the country.†Those articles that have been rejected abroad have come back to visit domestic publications. Domestic publications publish articles that meet the needs of graduating master graduate students and doctoral students in China. Such articles are mostly written in imitations of SCI journals. From the experimental design, to the experimental process, to the data compilation, the viewpoints are often not fresh, and are low-level repetitions. . In doing so, it is very difficult for domestic publications to go international.
Sixth, scientists are reluctant to be "appraisers" for new inventions and are unwilling to do science and technology public welfare undertakings that are not related to SCI. Academic journals, academic conferences, academic monographs, scientific and technological achievements, talents training, patents for inventions, etc. These scientific research activities closely related to national science and technology innovation are not counted as performance. No one wants to do it. Many scholars prefer to go to trials of foreign SCI publications and are unwilling to review manuscripts for domestic publications. In this way, the country’s overall scientific research and academic level will remain at a low level and repeat itself. It is the sorrow of Chinese scientists and the sorrow of the Chinese science and technology community that the level of scientists themselves is handed over to foreign publications for judging.
The current SCI assessment system has made the Chinese science and technology community very passive: ideas are being led by others, instruments are to be bought, and the results are to be published in other people's publications. Big awards such as the Nobel Prize or others are the final words. Under this premise, Chinese scientists are always working as workers. Many people waste their youth and even their lives. They have nothing to gain. They retire the poor SCIs before retirement, and they are reluctant to take a look.
To get rid of this passive status, it is necessary to guarantee the stable income of scientific researchers. Do not allow them to “come back for five buckets of riceâ€, become a slave to SCI, and become a slave to a technocrat. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as key universities in China, should strictly control entry and exit, stabilize the scientific research team through policy channels, put forward their own core ideas in theory, and dare to challenge authority; aim at international major needs in application, take tasks as disciplines, and finally realize Scientific research innovation and breakthrough.