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Published online 8 July 2009 | Nature 460, 157 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460157a
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Czech researchers angry over government changes
Reform reshuffles budgets for science and industry.
Scientists in the Czech Republic are up in arms over drastic changes in the national science-funding system that they say will damage basic research in the long term.
Starting next year, core funding for Czech universities and research institutes will be allocated according to rigorous metrics.
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The 'points for publication' section seemed vague. Is this related to the quality or the number of publications? If the latter, I find it a bit alarming. It already seems that there is huge pressure on scientists to publish, and rushed research as well as writing surely defeats the purpose of making science public. I have encountered papers that seem only to serve the purpose of ticking a box, some by providing no real information, others by being almost exact replicates of a previous paper. Science becomes cluttered. I would rather publish rarely, but publish well. I hope my worry is mistaken.