During the spring and this summer, I worked on and off, in my free time, on a side project about French researchers and their publications. This is an ongoing work, it will probably move slowly and last for some time, but I think it’s interesting to start documenting the first results.
Anyone with a passing knowledge of the French Higher Ed landscape will know this is a daunting task: polite decision makers talk of a fragmented system; less polite people confess it’s a terrible mess, a jumble of overlapping structures and competing loyalties, with Universities, University groups, Ecoles, the CNRS, labs big and small with multiple parent organisations.
