Do you agree with me that the boring daily routine of administrative procedures for some institutions may distract you from achieving and completing the desired scientific research?
Sure,definively i agree with you ,because administrative collection leads to kill desire for achiveing work.
It is more than "distract you from achieving and completing the desired scientific research?"
It opens a way to misconducts and frauds in sciences, that are harmful for all.
In relatively new forms of misconducts and frauds we have 3G+H authorship (Ghost, Guest, Gift and Honorary authorship) also later all these four destructive forms of authorships would we translated or result to "I publish where I edit" phenomenon, which has shown to be more destructive behavior in the world of academia.
For example take into consideration honorary authorship, where a person with a higher administrative rank (dean, deputy, head of department...) can put a lower rank person (faculty member, lecturer, assistant professor... ) in pressure to add their names as an author of an article to be published! the lower rank people have no way but to accept, (generally speaking).
Anyway those with administrative posts, don't have time to research, but have power to ask others, and many do so (1). May be three to four years later they have many published papers in collaboration of those lower rank people!
What will happen next? Many people and journals and universities, around the world find those publications in databases (such as science direct, springer, sage, jstor, ebsco...) WOW, how many published papers this ""researcher"" has, lets invite him/her to be in our journal editorial team, lets have him/her to help our university, lets ask for his/her consultation, lets have him/her to start a workshop and many more...
What do they have to offer? nothing, as they have done nothing, but others don't know. At the end what ever they say or do is destructive for sciences and research, simply because they have not researched, but have publications!
(1) https://www.researchgate.net/post/Questionable_but_yet_powerful_phenomena_in_scientific_journals_even_top_ones_is_I_publish_where_I_edit_Obviously_we_can_not_ask_them_why_and_how
I kindly refer interested researchers to these related discussions initiated by me:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_one_to_defend_Honorary_forced_authorship_if_not_why_we_practice_it
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Bibliometrics_Scientometrics_and_the_like_are_more_harmful_than_useful_in_styles_and_methods_that_are_practiced_now
also my answers here
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_you_submit_your_articles_to_the_journal_where_your_supervisor_is_the_Editor-in-chief
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_Editors_publish_in_the_journals_they_edit_Rights_and_Wrongs
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