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paleonet ISI CI alternatives?



Dear colleagues,

You may know that there exists a group of scientists with temporal contracts
(of 5 years) financed by the Ministry and autonomous regions called Ramón y
Cajal. The first group employed in 2001 will now be evaluated. The criteria
recently published by the Ministry appear to heavily rely on the ISI CI
which gave rise to a vivid discussion on the Ramón y Cajal list server on
how appropriate this is. The problem of the ISI CI is of course not at all
new and leads me to a more general question to the paleo-community. 

For Biology there now exists an alternative -
http://www.facultyof1000.com/browse/ - which is however rather biassed on
medical topics (in its widest sense) and does not include Paleobiology
issues nor for example morphogenesis of "hard tissues" (in their
developmental biology section).

The question: Are you happy with the state as is or do you think it's worth
to push a bit to get paleobiology included in Facultyof1000 or to push in
the direction of our own Faculty of 100 equivalent for Geosciences?

Thanks for your opinions,

Cheers,

Niko 


 

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Nikolaus Malchus

PhD (Geology)
Ramón y Cajal researcher (RyC 1)

Dept. de Geologia/Unitat Paleontologia
Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona
Campus, Edifici Cs
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallčs)
Catalonia, SPAIN

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