RT @UllaHytti: About publication metrics: "When the measure becomes target, it ceases to be a good measure." https://t.co/vzJcj1nUr0
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @william_c_clark: The most thorough and fair minded empirical treatment of the topic I have seen. And some reasonable suggestions for…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @william_c_clark: The most thorough and fair minded empirical treatment of the topic I have seen. And some reasonable suggestions for…
RT @william_c_clark: The most thorough and fair minded empirical treatment of the topic I have seen. And some reasonable suggestions for…
The most thorough and fair minded empirical treatment of the topic I have seen. And some reasonable suggestions for how to improve things. Deserves to be widely read... and cited 🙂
RT @BelleCurveGauss: Maybe it’s time to be more like Ricker and aim to publish something phenomenal every 10 years. https://t.co/d8xZi7HdRe
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
Michael Fire, Carlos Guestrin (2019): Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics - observing Goodhart’s Law in action. GigaScience 8(6), giz053. https://t.co/fP0xWYyOEw #OpenAccess #Scholcomm #Metrics
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @DrRussRD: Interesting take: Metrics of academic success, i.e. number of publications, number of citations, and impact factor, have beco…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @DrRussRD: Interesting take: Metrics of academic success, i.e. number of publications, number of citations, and impact factor, have beco…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @gscumming: "72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳 https://t.co/QhLYgy9sAy
"72.1% of all papers published in 2009 had no citations after 5 years"😳
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
Maybe it’s time to be more like Ricker and aim to publish something phenomenal every 10 years.
*preach!*
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @AMathelier: Interesting meta study of academic publishing and currently used metrics to assess authors and journals. https://t.co/MHTir…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
Interesting meta study of academic publishing and currently used metrics to assess authors and journals.
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @rubenarslan: Read this on how we've trained scientists to over-optimize their CVs for commonly used metrics of success (like citation c…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @ResMetrics: Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action https://t.co/xxJa82bGdR
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @UllaHytti: About publication metrics: "When the measure becomes target, it ceases to be a good measure." https://t.co/vzJcj1nUr0
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
Interesting take: Metrics of academic success, i.e. number of publications, number of citations, and impact factor, have become targets and follow Goodhart’s Law: “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Read: https://t.co/M3WnUIa
RT @NicolaiFoss: Analysis of > 120 million papers ( !!). Citation-based metrics increasingly less useful. https://t.co/6bSWFhycaJ
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
RT @AcademicDataSci: "Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fi…
"Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." Great work, Micky Fire! Proud to have supported you during your postdoc while at @uwescience. https://t.co/3lKL4S1P2P
"the academic publishing world too often defaults to traditional measures based on citations that were used before preprint repositories & mega-journals existed & before academia became such a hypercompetitive environment." https://t.co/MNIPwsd7vS
Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action https://t.co/LdKJ1ysN56
"Academic publishing has changed considerably; now we need to reconsider how we measure success." data that argues that # of pubs, citation number, and impact factor have ceased to be good metrics https://t.co/t7W4E4okea #sciencetwitter #academictwitter
RT @noelTbrewer: Academic metrics lose meaning: "number of publications has ceased to be a good metric as a result of longer author lists,…
Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action | GigaScience | Oxford Academic https://t.co/Qj62I6xHGM
"we observed that citation-based metrics are not beneficial for comparing researchers in different fields, or even in the same department" Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action https://t.co/9iItp8xiN9
RT @NicolaiFoss: Analysis of > 120 million papers ( !!). Citation-based metrics increasingly less useful. https://t.co/6bSWFhycaJ
As a trainee I get lots of advice on hitting these metrics turned targets. I wonder what future trainees will hear? It would be nice if it was something like, "aim for solid science that's useful. Search committees will read your paper and judge you by its
Such a good piece! We need to change this system of publishing "knowledge"
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
In #Biology, number of publications, h-index, & citation number have ceased to be good measures of academic success because, per Goodhart's Law, "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" (Fire & Guestrin 2019) #openasccess
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…
RT @Protohedgehog: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This new study is the most powerful case yet against…