title: "Am I Famous Yet?" Judging Scholarly Merit in Psychological Science: An Introduction.
abstract: The purpose of this symposium is to consider new ways of judging merit in academia, especially with respect to research in psychological science. First, I discuss the importance of merit-based evaluation and the purpose of this symposium. Next, I review some previous ideas about judging merit-especially creative merit-and I describe some of the main criteria used by institutions today for judging the quality of research in psychological science. Finally, I suggest a new criterion that institutions and individuals might use and draw some conclusions.
authors.affiliation: Cornell University robert.sternberg@cornell.edu.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Sternberg
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001288:Attention; D001319:Authorship; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods; D012106:Research; D014495:Universities
keywords: application: policy; assessment; creativity; diagnosis; imagination