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I'm not in academia, is the industry vigilant of researchers who try to game metrics, or is metric-gaming commonplace and largely overlooked? Does it depend on

• curiousgibbon 4y ago
  Who is "the industry"? My managers want me to succeed at the metrics. Research is too diverse for them to have real understanding of all of their underlings and their work so metrics become important. My peers (well, the ones I respect) know that the metrics are awful. The metrics seem to have the property that people who I consider successful do score well, but it's possible to score well entirely on the back of work with no scientific value too.