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Are "publication metrics" also used heavily in China by the bureaucracy ? I know for a fact that the number of fake-journals exploded once the Govt. of India d
by tho23i423423423 1y ago
Are "publication metrics" also used heavily in China by the bureaucracy ?
I know for a fact that the number of fake-journals exploded once the Govt. of India decided to use this for promotions.
It's a bit sad really: in the classical world both these countries spent inordinate amount of time on the questions of epistemology (India esp.). Now reduced to mimicking some silly thing that vaguely tracks knowledge-production even in the best case in the West.
- pfdietz 1y agoWhat a wonderful illustration of Goodhart's Law.
- porridgeraisin 1y agoYes. And filtering out publications in "paper mills" and then judging the guy properly doesn't scale beyond the top few institutions. So you'll find a sudden drop-off in research quality once you reach the n_th university. It really is almost like a threshold.