Academic evaluations are very imperfect and are biased toward "what have you done lately?" Major breakthroughs do not count for as much as sustained research ou

Academic evaluations are very imperfect and are biased toward "what have you done lately?" Major breakthroughs do not count for as much as sustained research output. For tenure and promotion, typically work done before joining the institution is not used in the evaluation, and the prize winning work was done during her PhD research. This is in the US, but I assume Canada is reasonably similar. Also, see this article by Peter Higgs complaining about the need to "keep churning out papers": https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...