> This emphasis on citations in the measurement of scientific productivity shifted scientist rewards and behavior on the margin toward incremental science
this sounds like the science equivalent of how search engines lead to the creation of content farms. citation scores are to spam science as pagerank is to wikihow?
Imagine going through life with a high-tech spam filter from the future that can filter out wikihow and boring science. Impossible to build, I suspect, but that would be the life.
this sounds like the science equivalent of how search engines lead to the creation of content farms. citation scores are to spam science as pagerank is to wikihow?
Imagine going through life with a high-tech spam filter from the future that can filter out wikihow and boring science. Impossible to build, I suspect, but that would be the life.