It is well known that the significance of a public academic paper is usually reflected in the priority attributes of results; the sharing of results by scientific communities; and the need for scientific evaluation by peers, units and individuals.At present, there seems to be little controversy among the public (including leaders and scientists at all levels) about whether scientific research personnel should publish academic papers.We've seen occasional propaganda in the media about agricultural scientists writing papers on "a bumper land" and industrial scientists writing papers on high-quality products in their respective jobs.
In 2000, after attending an international academic conference in the United States, I visited Houston as a guest at the home of a student who graduated in the early 1980s.The student works for an international oil service in Houston, a typical technology service company.He invited me to dinner and chat at home. I focused on the characteristics of their company in terms of technology management and the wages and benefits of employees.During the conversation, he inadvertently told me that his company awarded $2,000 for an academic paper published in an international publication, and he did not elaborate on the measure.But I wondered, as a typical international technology service company, what it meant to reward employees for publishing papers.Is this a kind of "welfare?What is the significance of such incentives for the development of a company?I try to give a reasonable explanation for this incentive.We generally believe that there are three steps in the process of producing a published academic paper (illegal papers, such as fabrication of data, plagiarism of other people's achievements, etc.).Therefore, it can be seen that to produce a formal academic paper requires the author to track the results of peer research, analyze and evaluate the level of peer research (discover insufficient), and put forward a new idea.Regardless of how much an academic paper contributes to the company's development, I think the paper's output process should be of great help to improve the technical ability and quality of the company's technicians.Will the intellectual improvements that scientists get through the process of writing academic papers not help the company's technological development?Wouldn't it work better than some of our industry-wide technical training (exceptional skills training)?In addition, once the paper is published, the author's signature is the company, which is naturally very helpful in raising the company's profile. I jokingly call the $2, 000 reward an advertising fee.So the far-reaching implications of the company's paper incentives are self-evident.