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A CS researcher's unusually high h-index exposes an expansive citation network
- bell-cot 5mo ago"Ruthlessly optimizing for metric X sounded great, but somehow that failed to give us outcome Y." -Anon
- rbanffy 5mo agoIs the CS community more prone to game metrics? I have a feeling most in the area would do that even if there weren’t any external incentives. I’d go for prime palindromes.
- leephillips 5mo agoI don’t think so. Just in Retraction Watch there have been several similar stories about citation manipulation, perversion of the review process, and so on, in medicine, biology, and other fields. I don’t know whether these ugly practices are becoming more common or whether they are detected more frequently. If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.
- rbanffy 5mo ago> If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science. I'd say the incentives are misaligned.