Polemiczne artykuly w Nature - wybor

Reform the PhD system or close it down - Mark Taylor Published online 20 April 2011 | Nature 472, 261 (2011)
There are too many doctoral programmes, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor.

University cuts show science is far from saved - Colin Macilwain, Published online 12 January 2011 | Nature 469, 133 (2011)
Scientific leaders have been too quick to praise the reprieve for research money, says Colin Macilwain. The slashing of teaching funds will do real damage.

Publish or perish - Nature/Editorial (467) pp.252, Published online: 15 September 2010
China needs to elaborate on plans to modernize its flagging academic journals.
Scientific publishing in China is in a quandary. Many articles in the country's 5,000-plus science and technology journals go unread and uncited, calling into question the value of the research. It also raises doubts over the effectiveness of China's scientific publishing — which, after all, is to disseminate details of research for others around the world to build on. One Chinese scientist has referred to the majority of China's publications as “pollution”.