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I'm astounded that this guy's the world #1 in his subfield by academia's success metric, citation count. (The table about 2/3rd of the way into the article).

• bumby 3y ago
  It kinda makes sense to me. The people who are most likely to have a high citation count are those who value making publications. Those who treat publications are the primary goal are probably those most likely to take an "ends justify the means" approach to publishing. (That's not to say all those who value publication count are unethical, just that the unethical group is more likely a subset of those whose primary metric is publication count). Goodhart's Law says: "When the measure becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure." When the target is "publication or citation count" rather than "meaningful research or the pursuit of truth" things can get weird.
• bsimpson 3y ago
  Francesca Gino was famously prolific before she was outed as a fraud - publishing monthly when her peers were publishing a few times a year.