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What is the extent that "Open Science" in Hostler's argument can be replaced with "quality"? In other words, management are motivated to under-recognise *all* work which goes into doing high quality research (because academics have non-institutional motivations for making work higher quality). To the extent that Open Research practices are adopted as aspects of higher quality (rather than being required institutionally as arbitrary add-ons), they will just be another example in a much larger general category of academic labour which is underrecognised but contributes to research quality (along with thorough literature reviewing, mentoring, citing properly, reviewing, etc )

If this is the case, the bonus is that efforts to ameliorate underrecognition / work-loads might cover adoption of open research practices without need for special consideration

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