{"title":"[Who wants to be a SIGAPS millionaire?]","authors":"Louise Benoit","doi":"10.1051/medsci/2022006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to promote biomedical research, the French ministry of Solidarity and Health has developed a software that is used to rate medical doctors according to their scientific production: the SIGAPS points (System of Interrogation, Management and Analysis of Scientific Publications). These points (1-32 points) are attributed after the publication of a scientific paper according to the quality of the journal (based on the impact factor) and the doctor's rank among the authors. These points are then transformed into a sum of money received by the health facility (1 point = approximately 648 euros), 4 years in a row. Does this \"fee-for-service\" encourage doctors to publish quickly at any price, regardless of the quality of their research?</p>","PeriodicalId":519512,"journal":{"name":"Medecine sciences : M/S","volume":"38 2","pages":"215-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medecine sciences : M/S","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/2022006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/2/18 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In order to promote biomedical research, the French ministry of Solidarity and Health has developed a software that is used to rate medical doctors according to their scientific production: the SIGAPS points (System of Interrogation, Management and Analysis of Scientific Publications). These points (1-32 points) are attributed after the publication of a scientific paper according to the quality of the journal (based on the impact factor) and the doctor's rank among the authors. These points are then transformed into a sum of money received by the health facility (1 point = approximately 648 euros), 4 years in a row. Does this "fee-for-service" encourage doctors to publish quickly at any price, regardless of the quality of their research?