In Turkey, there is such a system of payment (awarding) for supporting researches published in some of the SCI/SSCI indexed journals. See the attachment.
I would be happy to hear if there is such a system in your country?
Dear all, you know what would be interesting? Creating a sort of international movement of scholars and researchers that help improve local conditions after the best examples. I am astonished with various answers from prestigious universities where researchers do not get paid for their publications!
Exchange and information is perfect. What about a networked initiative?
(…Just an idea….)
The US system is indirect. A publication track record is expected for jobs, promotions, grants, and so on. No cash payment for publishing --unless it's page charges or other fees paid to the journal!
There are similar incentives in China: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/04/07/paying-for-impact-does-the-chinese-model-make-sense/
No. I have not seen such a system in either India or Malaysia. But scholarships are given in India by government agencies for pursuing PG and doctoral studies. For judging the suitability of the candidate for a doctoral research scholarship, again the criteria is research papers published in SCI indexed journals (and impact factor too). So it is sort of - you publish first and then on that basis get a scholarship (that too depends on luck as there are lot of applicants for limited posts). For PG, candidate should have cleared some exams like GATE or NET to be eligible for scholarship. So altogether student needs to get some publications to his credit (by hooks or by crooks) for a financial support.
In Colombia there are two conspicuous cases. On the one hand, at the public universities you get paid some points that become relevant for your entire salary in your life. As we say over here: you create your salary yourself. On the other hand, some prestigious private universities just pay you bonuses for that. The ranges go from 10000 USD down to 600 US for a paper in a A1 Journal. The rest of (average) universities don't pay one cent!
In most countries in Latin America you don't get one more dollar for your publications. Except in one field: management. (I know of one university in Peru where at the management school you get up to 20000 USD per pare! Amazing, huh?)
The answer is yes. It is a policy that has been approved by our Board of Regents. It is also a manifestation of how important publication is in our institution.
In most Mexican public universities, professors get points for publishing (among other academic activities), and the points translate into a yearly bonus. There are two parallel systems: the institutional bonus and membership in the National System of Researchers, renewable every three or four years. A highly productive professor can roughly double his salary through these systems. This means dedicating a lot of time to documenting one's activities, but it tends to increase productivity. On the other hand, the quantitative focus can have a negative effect on research quality. Sadly, some colleagues acquire a "dalmation complex," and the point acquisition game becomes more important than making a genuine contribution to expanding knowledge, serving students, and contributing to the society that supports all of this with their taxes and other public revenues. This game is especially harmful in what are usually called the "social sciences and humanities," because of the irrational prioritization of articles published in international journals, and the relative devaluation of traditional academic genres like books and chapters in conference proceedings, which are generally underappreciated.
There is no such system in my institution. Whatever research activity is driven by your own dedication. There is no incentive at all. The result is a complete stop of publishing after reaching the intended position in many cases
Nothing in my University. However it is considered during the tenure and promotion process. As a result people who are very active in publishing till they reach the Full Professor position suddenly become inactive due to lack of incentive from the University. If you have passion you pursue irrespective of whether it is rewarded by the University or not. But it is a good way to stimulate research interest.
We suggested to our University to use this system for stimulating researchers. At first University administration liked this idea and promised to consider this proposal, however nothing happened after 2 year and we don't have this system, unfortunately :-) But when I was working for Turkish University (SDU), they had this system, plus TUBITAK also was paying some honorary for publications and I was very happy with that.
Dear all, you know what would be interesting? Creating a sort of international movement of scholars and researchers that help improve local conditions after the best examples. I am astonished with various answers from prestigious universities where researchers do not get paid for their publications!
Exchange and information is perfect. What about a networked initiative?
(…Just an idea….)
If you want a system like the one I described on this thread five days ago, one effective way to motivate administrators to adopt it would be to convince them that their institutions will have a higher score on the various international ranking indexes, due to the inevitable increase in publications and patents. But be warned that the numbers game is perverse and does not create an ideal environment for research, teaching and the diffusion of knowledge. I would prefer that universities just hire motivated people to begin with, pay them whatever they are going to pay, and let them get on with their work without so many bureaucratic distractions.
On the other hand, the Mexican system with the "points game" is probably more humane than the tenure system in the United States, since nonproductive professors are not thrown out into the street if they do not produce enough research to satisfy their colleagues (or if there are underlying personal, ideological or even political agendas); they just have to get by with a minimal base salary, and can continue to support their families. One might say that such professors should not be allowed to keep their jobs, but in practice I believe that there will always be some professors that are by nature better teachers than researchers, and this is not a bad thing; they are often the ones that care most about serving their students.
As you can see, I am weighing the pros and cons in my head without reaching a firm conclusion.
Not directly, but it counts towards performance of a researcher. for example in Australia a book published (peer reviewed) gets 5 points, a Journal paper 1 point, a book chapter 1 point. So this a sort of award or acknowledgement
My institution pays; 2000 euro/divided by the number of authors per paper in A1 quartile journals, and 1450 euro/divided by the number of authors per paper in A2 quartile journals. so, if you are one of the 15 coauthors, it is very good amount of money, a?
And the list of payments in Turkey is really impressive - every WoS journal paper is paid.
I just saw a talk by some guy who recently won the Nobel prize for his work on cell systems and he to us the Chinese government pays $30000 to people who get papers in science, nature or cell. I was shocked to learn this. He also made a persuasive argument to stop submitting papers to these journals that impose unreasonable limits on publishing and are not run by scientists. He now edits a journal called elife that is open access and doesn't charge fees.
At my institution they do not pay faculty for publications, they pay the graduate students. If you have a first author paper you receive a check for $100 and recognition from and by your peers. If you are 2nd author to last you receive $50. Nothing given for impact or other and nothing for the PI of the lab the work was accomplished in. It was instituted to encourage graduate students to work harder towards a publication. Have not seen the data yet but there are a lot more activity than I remember so it seems to be helping stimulate students to work towards required publications.
Dear Turkey, in India, specially in my institution we don't have such system. I wish such systems would implement in future...
There is no such awards or prize, or payment or even encouragement in my institute. But research and then its publication definitely gives us a lot.
Huge APCs (Article processing / publishing charges) are not paid but up to 100 USD can be paid.
My University has sensibly increased the amounts for publications, now under one proviso: all papers must be at least Q4, and ideally Q1.
In Iran, Young Researchers and Elites Club, Islamic Azad University paid between 200 – 500 Dollar for each international paper. Amount of paid dependent quality of journal (Q1,Q2, ...).
I’ve seen some ResearchGate threads dealing with this topic, thus I’m copying these weblinks into these threads (there are probably many more):
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_much_does_your_university_pay_author_if_you_publish_in_respectful_journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_your_university_reward_for_publishing_ISI_article
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_your_University_Faculty_encourage_their_professors_to_publish_in_journals
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_researchers_lecturers_scholars_be_given_publication_grant_incentive_by_the_university_management_for_publishing_papers_in_reputable_journals
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_get_any_bounty_Money_for_publishing_papers_from_your_university_or_institue
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_there_be_any_course_load_reduction_in_university_on_the_basis_of_publishing_some_specific_number_of_Impact_factor_Journals
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_your_institution_pay_you_in_case_you_publish_your_research_in_some_of_the_leading_journals
Is there any relationship between such awards, prize, payment, or encouragement and high impact (visibility) publications?
In Pakistan also there is reward for publication but it varies University to University and totally depends on Universities administrations how much they fixed fro the publication and up to which position of author they want to pay.
In Iran, most of universities pay for the published article; it depends on the impact factor of journals (in JCR), but for the journals indexed in Scopus, the payment is same. However, the number of authors per paper and the place of author (among other authors of the paper) is another factor in the amount of payment.
Can this pay-per-paper published system be a contributing factor to the ever increasing fraudulent activities in science, including the the rise in number of papers retracted? And what then happens when some of these multiple papers are retracted - you pay back or they let bygone be bygones?
Yes, it pays: https://www.pucv.cl/uuaa/site/artic/20170607/asocfile/20170607121941/programa_de_fortalecimiento_vriea_2017.pdf
@Magaly, your institutions should go bankrupt :) You get paid even for Q4 journals, that's great!!!
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