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Are you in HEP? I think that's actually a good thing. Makes publication metrics unusable (which is a good thing) and sidesteps many gaming strategies.
by jampekka 3y ago
Are you in HEP?
I think that's actually a good thing. Makes publication metrics unusable (which is a good thing) and sidesteps many gaming strategies.
- dguest 3y agoIt's a thing for sure. It would be great in a post-scarcity society where everyone can be funded regardless of what they do, but people are still competitive. For example: - There are still internal databases (which funding agencies can access), people fight over who gets on which paper there. There are people trying to game that system as much as they would try to game a public metric. - There's a whole cottage industry of people in these collaborations who simulate the experiment, show that it could do something, and then publish a paper (with a shorter author list) about it. This is so popular that many of these people never get around to doing the real experiment. Unfortunately I don't think we've broken free of Goodhart's Law so easily.