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US lawmakers agreed on a new stimulus package to help America's ailing economy.
原本在美国议员宣布通过重振美国疲弱经济的一项新刺激计划的当下，投资者就想表达庆祝了。
多数国际学术期刊在发表论文时，都会向投稿人收取高额版面费，很多学者对此心生不满，但出于种种原因又不得不接受现实。
A survey of nearly 1,000 academic researchers in South Africa suggests that the majority are in favour of keeping a government scheme that offers cash rewards for publishing research papers in
accredited
journals, even though they agree that this can promote unethical practices.
一项针对南非近1000名学术研究人员的调查显示，大多数人支持保留这项政府计划：给在权威期刊上发表研究论文的人提供现金奖励，尽管他们也认为这可能会助长违反伦理的行为。
Under the scheme, researchers can receive about 120,000 rand per published article. The
subsidies
were initially implemented in 2005 to drive academic output, and it worked: South Africa’s overall research output rose from 4,063 articles in 2005 to 25,371 in 2018.
在该计划下，研究人员每发表一篇文章可以获得大约12万兰特（约合5.3万人民币）的补贴。这项为了推动学术产出的补贴最初于2005年开始实施并取得了成效：南非的总体研究产出量从2005年的4,063篇文章增至2018年的25,371篇。
But the system has attracted criticism.
Some researchers say that it promotes publishing in
predatory
journals, which charge fees but typically do not provide
peer review
or other quality checks, and that it encourages the ‘
salami slicing
’ of research to produce multiple papers from a study rather than one high-quality article.
但这一制度也招致了批评。
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More than two-thirds of the respondents agreed that incentives
enticed
researchers to salami-slice their research, and more than half agreed that they led to inappropriate author attribution. But 68% of respondents thought that South Africa should keep its incentive system .
超过三分之二的受访者都认为，激励机制会驱使研究人员将研究分割开发表，一半以上的受访者认为，激励机制会导致作者署名不当行为。但68%的受访者认为南非应该保留其激励制度。
One reason for this apparent contradiction is a general shortage of funds, says David Hedding, a
geologist
at the University of South Africa in Pretoria who also researches publishing trends in South Africa. “With the current
crunch
in research funding, [incentives] will become even more important for researchers,” he says.
比勒陀利亚南非大学的地质学家大卫·赫丁也研究了南非的出版趋势并表示，造成这种表面矛盾的一个原因是研究资金普遍短缺。他说：“在目前研究资金短缺的情况下，激励措施对研究人员将变得更加重要。”
本文节选自：Nature（自然）
发布时间：2020.12.09
作者：Sarah Wild
原文标题：Researchers decry 'pay to publish' system— but don’t want it to stop
1.
accredit
2.subsidy
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英/'sʌbsɪdɪ/美/'sʌbsədi/
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n. 津贴；补助金；补贴
3.predatory
