Abstract

GLENN, Ian. Research ratings, research coherence and justifying the butterfly. S. Afr. j. sci. [online]. 2022, vol.118, n.7-8, pp.1-2. ISSN 1996-7489.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/13015.

SIGNIFICANCE: The South African National Research Foundation's insistence on research coherence and specialisation as major criteria in ratings exercises may be misjudged. Opportunistic and wide-ranging interdisciplinary research may be more important and more ethically justified in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Keywords : research coherence; innovation; evaluating researchers; interdisciplinary research; Charles Fourier.

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