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Pretty much the moment someone decided that your publication count is an important metric to get funded. I think it got ruined when someone decided that a publ
by p1esk 4y ago
Pretty much the moment someone decided that your publication count is an important metric to get funded.
I think it got ruined when someone decided that a publication count is an important metric to evaluate a teacher (or that teaching and research should be done by the same person).
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoIt got ruined earlier than that. See "The Ph.D. Octopus", by William James, 1903. Or a more updated take on it that I just started reading: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.5.490 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.5.... The B.S. Octopus, another article I just stumbled on: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/140/ https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/140/