Academia şi morsa
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Summary/Abstract: The social benefits expected from academia are generally identified as belonging to three broad categories: research, education and contribution to the overall society. Universities and higher education institutions are meant to operate within these fields. However, evaluating the present situation of academia accordingly to these criteria reveals a somewhat disturbing phenomenon: it seems not only that an increased pressure to produce articles (in peerreviewed journals) creates an unbalanced emphasis on the research criterion at the expense of the latter two. More fatally, the pressure to produce articles has turned academia into a rat race; the fundamental structure of academic behavior has been changed, resulting in a selfdefeating and hence counter-productive pattern.

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