{"id":14,"date":"2011-06-07T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:10:20","slug":"bu%e2%80%99s-research-paper-productivity-gets-high-marks-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"BU\u2019s research paper productivity gets high marks&#8230; Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today graced us this morning with a funny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2011\/bu%e2%80%99s-research-paper-productivity-gets-high-marks\/\">cover story<\/a>, proclaiming that\u00a0&#8220;BU\u2019s Research Paper Productivity Gets High Marks&#8221;, adding that &#8220;University in fifth place in national cost per paper analysis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that the Cost\/Paper at BU is $50K vs $72K nationally. BU is a bargain when it comes to paper-per-dollar \ud83d\ude42 The silly season must be\u00a0upon us!<\/p>\n<p>A colleague here at BU suggested that all we have to do to get better papers-per-dollar is to submit to the &#8220;World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 What a joke &#8212; and a waste of tax-payer money to fund studies like this&#8230; And, shame on BU Today for marching in that parade!<\/p>\n<p>Our request for raises is making its way to central administration \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today graced us this morning with a funny cover story, proclaiming that\u00a0&#8220;BU\u2019s Research Paper Productivity Gets High Marks&#8221;, adding that &#8220;University in fifth place in national cost per paper analysis&#8221;. The bottom line is that the Cost\/Paper at BU is $50K vs $72K nationally. BU is a bargain when it comes to paper-per-dollar \ud83d\ude42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}