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Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research

Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research

Lippman, Alexandra
Biagioli, Mario

Paperback

Series: Infrastructures

Business of WritingGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0262537931
ISBN13: 9780262537933
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 28 2020
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.

The traditional academic imperative to publish or perish is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of impact or perish--the requirement that a publication have impact, as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gaming the Metrics examines how the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced radically new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The contributors show that the metrics-based audit culture has changed the ecology of research, fostering the gaming and manipulation of quantitative indicators, which lead to the invention of such novel forms of misconduct as citation rings and variously rigged peer reviews.

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