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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics 'overwhelmed'

theguardian.com

7 points by rustoo 3 days ago

quantified 3 days ago

As soon as you manage to a metric is ceases to be useful. Count of publications and count of citations has become such a metric. Too many humans involved now.

  • nmstoker 3 days ago

    Indeed, that's Goodhart's Law:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law