Original scientific paper
Branko Urošević
; Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dušan Pavlović
orcid.org/0000-0003-3941-1539
; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The paper explains why the quality of social reseach in Serbia is low. We show that low international competitiveness of the Serbian social science research can be found in the system of perverse incentives that rewards social scientists to put minimal effort to advance on academic ladder and do the research. This can be seen in small number of works and papers published in internationally recognized and prestigious academic journals and rare participation at international conferences and gatherings. Low competitiveness is a consequence of descriptivity in reasearch; retelling other authors's theories, avoidance of quantitaive research; rare application of theoretical paradigms; misunderstanding of theories, recycling of one's own but also others's works, usage of old syllabi in teaching, and a perverse system of teacher selection that is designed to select average students for TAs and university professors. We offer several recommendation to improve the situation.
Keywords
academic Research; incentives for academic research; academic journals; selection of university professors
Hrčak ID:
146913
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Publication date:
9.9.2013.
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