Quantum Radar and Research Assessment

TL;DR

This paper critically evaluates the limited practical success of Quantum Radar research over fifteen years, highlighting the need for improved international research assessment methods.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of Quantum Radar research failures and proposes new strategies for research evaluation at the global level.

Findings

Quantum Radar has limited real-world applications due to low transmitted power.

Most scientific community ignored negative results in Quantum Radar research.

Calls for redesigning research assessment practices internationally.

Abstract

Quantum Radar was studied in many Nations for about fifteen years with the production of some hundred publications. In the post 2020 literature, it is shown that, due to the exceedingly low transmitted power, Quantum Radar cannot produce neither significant results nor real world applications. Regrettably, most of the scientific community ignored this negative outcome: a fact worth of exam. A detailed study of such an assessment failure depicts the main shortcomings of the present situation, calling for a redesign of the research assessment at the international level, with proposals shown in the ending section of this paper.