Metrics rarely increase the amount of rate top quality work, but history has shown how bad metrics can decimate the top quality work produced, eg Expulsion of j

Metrics rarely increase the amount of rate top quality work, but history has shown how bad metrics can decimate the top quality work produced, eg Expulsion of jewish scientists in Germany during the 1930s. I suspect todays short-term, glamor-based metrics improve the median quality of work, but decrease the amount of top quality work being produced.