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关于SCI 及榮誉会員的選举方法 – On SCI and Fellows
Evaluation and Election
Many people in China is familiar with being elected to be an IEEE fellow.
The INFORMS society, the largest management science and operation
research professional organization in the world, established a “fellows” member grade five years ago. This membership grade is also by invitation and
election only and represents the highest honor the Society and the
profession can bestow on a member. I was honored to be among the first
group of inaugural fellows and has participated to some extent in its
membership development. This year the chairman of the election
committee gave a five year report and assessment on the operations of the
Election and Evaluation Committee (EEC). The report goes into the
consideration, criteria for election, and the operation of the EEC. This is a rare glimpse into how a profession confers honors on its members
– by necessity a secret process not even generally transparent to the members.
I attach the report here for the science net readers and have highlighted
the portion that may be of particular interest.
Two items mentioned in the report deserve particular emphasis here.
1. To a person, everyone consulted in INFORMS believe using SCI to measure a person is the worse kind of quantitative measurement. SCI is one
thing that INFORMS refuses to use in making election
decisions. I might add this is also generally true among western
scientists I personally know. In conversations, people will talk
about a particular paper or contributions on a specific subject by a
scientist. I have never heard the SCI or Impact factors being
mentioned.
3. The reputation for research must be international while reputation
for other criteria, such as education, service, etc can be national.
These practices are in directly contrast with various selection procedures
used in China in many honor selections. Worth some thought !
INFORMS Fellows Election report
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