Academia - Put your finger on the nation's pulse..
The current obsessions with university ranking results in academia focusing on high impact scientific journal papers. Popular mode of operandi for scholars these days are to isolate your talent so that one can focus on producing the impeccable article that can be accepted in high impact journals. Signs of distress can be seen in other areas of duty, scholars becoming less enthusiastic in teaching, in connecting with people from other areas, in connecting with industry and community. I remember the days when academia were not burdened with the vision and obsession of higher authority to push for ranking and prestige. We love knowledge and pursuit of it because its valuable in it self, without considering it valuable to our own personal career advancement. It was easy for academia to meet and greet, chit chat over lunch or coffee, without worrying our time spent this way would turn into high impact article or not. IN any research proposal workshop these days, academia are asked to c