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The article offers information on the importance of enhancing the measure adopted to reward research program conducted in Australia. It states that publicly funded researchers faces significant pressure to generate academic papers at universities in Australia. Information on possible calculation of citation equivalents for issued patents in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is also offered.

Reports on the decline of the quality of science in Australia relative to that of elsewhere, according to a detailed analysis of the number and citation papers produced by Australian scientists. Findings by the researchers Paul Bourke and Linda Butler; Breakdown of publication and citation rates by disciplines.