In Spain, there is a national organism (ANECA) working for ensuring the quality of the University. Between other functions, it is the responsible for the evaluation of candidates to be professor and after that, it allows them to be full professor. Depending on the country, the level of exigence is different. But all organisms always demand proves showing an adequate level in research. And more, for instance, in many European, Asian, African and South American countries it is necessary also to pass an exam. Then, some candidates are recompensed with the "Habilitation" which allows them to be in the high level of the University. These kind of organisms are really necessary for reducing corruption in the academic world.
Recently ANECA has published the new criteria for the "Habilitation" for being able to become full professor in Spain.
In Spain there is now a lot of noise in the social networks about this topic. I want to know if these criteria are logical and sensible for an international audience.
The criteria are very long and depends on the area, because of this I will show just the minimal criteria for getting this "Habilitation" or "Acreditación in spanish" in my area (Natural Sciences). The criteria basically looks at two aspects of the CV of the candidates: Teaching and Research. You can compensate somehow the punctuation in both. I show here just an example, assuming that you have a level "C" in teaching (a couple of hundred hours teaching, evaluations, a few of teaching publications) and a level "B" in training (for example with some awards to your PhD, a couple of Masters after the degree and some years doing international Postdocs), you need a level "A" in research. After that, the MINIMUM number of publications to pass this evaluation is:
- Minimal of 65 papers (JCR), 12 of them as first author. 75% should be in the first tercil of its area in the JCR ranking (T1).
So my question is. At your country, a professor needs more, similar or less number of publications? Makes sense this criteria?
For instance, I am living in Germany, and here this number could be considered normal or a little bit high but there are other factors evaluated like to have some publications in the top journals.
Thanks,
In almost every country including mine (India) such criteria exist, but it matters how a university implements it. the most important thing is sincere and genuine work produced by the researcher and genuine evaluation by the authorities. Mostly both are not up to the mark i.e. why what soever criteria are chosen are bound to fail. At least this is true in Indian context.
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