“A week or so ago, a list of perverse incentives in academia made rounds. It offers examples like ‘rewarding an increased number of citations’ that – instead of encouraging work of high quality and impact – results in inflated citation lists, an academic tit-for-tat which has become standard practice. Likewise, rewarding a high number of publications doesn’t produce more good science, but merely finer slices of the same science …” (more)
[Sabine Hossenfelder, Backreaction, 22 March]