Feminist Technoscience Blog

Dan Brändström, appointed by the Swedish Government to suggest a revised system for allocation of resources to Swedish universities, presented his official report the 2nd of November. Part of the resources for research will be exposed to competition between the presumptive receiving universities. As expected, one of the suggested quality criteria will be citation in scientific journals or more specifically “field-normalized citations of international scientific production”. Our question concerns how this will constitute an appropriate criteria when more and more of the scientific knowledge production is published and discussed in open access and open per review scientific journals. The academy is a very slow moving body but not its innovative inhabitants.