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It's about juicing the publication metrics by which academics are evaluated these days, especially in developing countries with less mature research cultures an
by civilized 5y ago
It's about juicing the publication metrics by which academics are evaluated these days, especially in developing countries with less mature research cultures and heavy publish-or-perish pressures. It's especially effective if you have co-conspirators who will cite your nonsense papers. So long as you publish and get cited, the metrics don't care about the content of your papers.
- ahartmetz 5y agoThis idiotic superficiality in disciplines that are supposed to be about deep thinking would be funny if it wasn't so destructive...