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Academic administrators judge performance based on publication counts, journal impact factors, citations/h-index, and fundraising. Working on tooling doesn't fi
by beambot 6y ago
Academic administrators judge performance based on publication counts, journal impact factors, citations/h-index, and fundraising. Working on tooling doesn't fit in those buckets, so it's broadly-speaking "useless" to a researcher vying for promotions (eg tenure). It's an imperfect method of measuring true impact.
- jofer 6y agoAnd to be fair, that was the context of the comment. It was meant to be harsh but true advice. It was quite arguably, at the time, worthless in the context of advancing my career. It turned into my career, eventually, but that wasn't the goal then.