Kjetil K. Haugen

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How could we get rid of NPM in academia?

I do not believe adding a lot of eager counting bureaucrats improves neither teaching nor research quality. Good suggestions to reverse the NPM evolution in academia. M. Alvesson et. al. suggests...

07 July 2018 6,935 0 View

Do we need a new research community internet platform?

Some of my colleagues argue that Researchgate or Academia.edu are good for information on research (sharing and searching) while these platforms do not offer the really interesting part of...

11 November 2017 1,917 53 View

Why are mathematics so difficult for most students?

I have been teaching subjects involving math for many years (more than 30), Operations Research, Probability and Statistics, Micro- and Macro Economics, Game Theory - to name a few. Almost always,...

08 August 2017 1,602 24 View

Do you feel, after a review process, that the original version of the paper was better than the published version?

I often (of course not always) get this feeling after a long and tiresome review process that the published paper often is significantly worse than the original. I do not like this feeling, and...

05 May 2017 4,656 17 View

Bug in RG read calculations?

The attached picture makes no sense to me, but of course, I am getting old :)

05 May 2017 9,125 11 View

Is your best paper the most cited one?

Many of us tend to be surprised when we after some time observe that the paper we thought should be our best is hardly cited while some other (maybe insignificant one) 'gets popular'. My most...

05 May 2017 5,273 28 View

What is the impact of game theory in economic theory?

Judged by the topics for recent Nobel prices in economics, it seems as one year is going to macroeconomics, the other year to microeconomics - maybe a reasonable distribution. Looking at the...

03 March 2017 4,477 7 View

Is it sensible to reward good research by using citation counts as a metric?

In Norway, the government suggests to add citation counts as mean of measuring research quality, What do people out there think of such a suggestion?

03 March 2017 7,598 14 View

Did you read this paper?

Anybody, with (or with interest for) Parkinson's disease at RG? I came over this article the other day. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918031/pdf/13099_2016_Article_109.pdf Any...

09 September 2016 583 4 View

Can anybody out there help me with this (presumably) very simple math question?

See attached (very small) pdf for the actual question

08 August 2016 796 2 View

Would Sanders have been a better candidate then Clinton?

I have a certain feeling that when a 'protest' candidate finally is running for white house, and his opponent belongs to the 'establishment', the 'protest' candidate might have a really good...

06 June 2016 5,728 3 View