Tag: citation

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 18, 2019

Categorized
Education, Peer Review

Tagged
academia, Campbell’s Law, citation, Featured, Goodhart’s Law, H-factor, Impact factor, Longform}

Why It’s So Hard To Reform Peer Review

_{Robert J. Marks: Reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. Know your enemy!} _{Robert J. Marks

July 18, 2019

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Education, Peer Review}

Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.

Does digitization threaten science?

_{It enables new abuses, according to a Cambridge nanoscientist} _{Mind Matters

September 23, 2018

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Social Factors}

The problem is not digitization as such, of course, but the mindset that it inadvertently encourages. Sometimes, for example, “citation rings” agree to cite each other’s papers so as to artificially inflate their rankings. Sometimes it graduates to “citation stacking” Read More ›