Proposing a new National Academy of Sciences of Tunisia: What do you think
Houcemeddine Turki
Externe en médecine (Université de Sfax, Tunisie), Assistant de recherche (Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Tunisie)
Since 1992, Beit al-Hikma began to work as a Tunisian Academy of Culture, Sciences and Arts.
Even if the organization had ameliorated the efficiency of social science research and contributed to the creation of several important social science studies, it failed to be the “senior national organization of distinguished Tunisian scientists and scholars” and “to promote learning and research in all areas of sciences by conferring membership and preferential treatment to those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of sciences and learning”. In fact, its exact science publications are limited, its social science publications are imprecise and rarely cited, the citation metrics of the exact science members are limited, it also failed to be a member of the International Council of Science like its equivalents in other developing countries...
To solve the deficiency of the Beit al-Hikma, a ? National Academy of Sciences ? should be created the senior national organization of distinguished Tunisian scientists and scholars that aims to promote learning and research in all areas of sciences by conferring membership and preferential treatment to those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of sciences and learning.
This will be simple. We assign the first founding members of the NAST according to their research achievements. Then, these members elect new members in a general assembly each year. The organization of the work inside the NAST will be the same as in National Academy of Sciences in the United States, in Japan, and in South Korea.
The founding members are the Tunisian citizens in Tunisia and abroad who are one of the following:
- Winners of Nobel Prize, Lasker Award, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Polar Music Prize, Holberg Prize, Millenium Prize, Hutter Prize, Prince of Asturias Award, Kavli Prize, Rolf Schock Prize, Pritzker Prize, Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize, Blue Planet Prize, Right Livelihood Award, Crafoord Prize, Abel Prize, Vetlesen Prize, COPSS President’s award, Humboldt Prize, One of the IEEE awards, Vautrin Lud Prize, International Meteorological Organization Prize, Derek John de Solla Price Medal, or Tyler Prize
- ISI Highly Cited Researchers or Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates
- Authors of at least eight items published in Science or Nature or cited more than 200 times
- Scientists having an h-index of 30 or more
What do you think of this idea...
Externe en médecine (Université de Sfax, Tunisie), Assistant de recherche (Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Tunisie)
7 年I thank you for your answer. The Academy will define the research Policy of Tunisia. As these scientists (mainly prize winners and highly cited scientists) are the ones having the best scientific effect, they know what are the influential research topics that can be conducted in Tunisia. They also know how to let aspiring scientists from Tunisia collaborate with excellent scholars abroad. Furthermore, these scientists can write books and courses that are more intelligible for Tunisian people and that explain to them how to apply Basic or Advanced scientific methods in Tunisian research. This is just what lacks in Tunisia.
Sr Data Analytics Consultant
7 年Greetings i think it's a great idea, but there's 2 main points i didn't get : 1) is it destined only to the elite scientists and researchers ( according to prizes you cited), and how it will contribute to the science in Tunisia and Tunisian researchers ? 2) what are the main goals of the academy and what is it's plus-value ? thanks