Most assessment processes in academia are purely administrative processes where they count the number of cookies that you have earned. They don't take the actua

Most assessment processes in academia are purely administrative processes where they count the number of cookies that you have earned. They don't take the actual quality of the work into account. In my country, it goes as far as having "objective" point scales like: publication in ISI JCR-indexed journals, 1 point for Q4, 2 points for Q3, 3 points for Q2, 5 points for Q1. Publication in non-indexed journal, 0.1 points. No one ever looks into whether the paper is good or crap, or whether the author has managed to submit almost the same paper to five journals. In fact, I know cases of honest people that tried to look into that kind of thing, but they didn't let them because it was against the published "objective" scale. I don't think the system is equally rotten in every country/institution, my country is probably among the most extreme places in this respect, but anyway this kind of assessment is the most common AFAICT, as the impact factor cult is often denounced by international scientific societies.