Gaming the metrics : misconduct and manipulation in academic research

Book 2020

"The traditional academic imperative to ٢publish or perish٣ is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of ٢impact or perish٣-the requirement that a publication have ٢impact,٣ 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 sho...

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Communication in learning and scholarship Moral and ethical aspects

Learning and scholarship Corrupt practices

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Infrastructures

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ISBN:

9780262537933

Description:

297 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Gaming metrics before the game : citation and the bureaucratic virtuoso / Alex Csiszar
The transformation of the scientific paper : from knowledge to accounting unit / Yves Gingras
Playing and being played by the research impact game / Michael Power
The mismeasurement of quality and impact / Paul Wouters
Taking Goodhart's law meta : gaming, meta-gaming, and hacking academic performance metrics / James Griesemer
Global university rankings' impacts and applications / Barbara M. Kehm
Predatory publishing and the imperative of international productivity : feeding off and feeding up the dominant / Sarah de Rijcke and Tereza StÃckelovÃ¡
Pressures to publish : what effects do we see? / Daniele Fanelli
Ghost-managing and gaming pharmaceutical knowledge / Sergio Sismondo
Retraction watch : what we've learned, and how metrics play a role / Ivan Oransky --- PubPeer : scientific assessment without metrics / Boris Barbour and Brandon Stell
The Voinnet affair : testing the norms of scientific image management / Catherine Guaspare and Emmanuel Didier
Crossing the line : pseudonyms and snark in post-publication peer review / Paul S. Brookes
Ike Antkare, his publications and those of his disciples / Ike Antkare
Fake scientists on editorial boards can significantly enhance the visibility of junk journals / Burkhard Morgenstern
Altmetrics gaming : beast within or without? / Jennifer Lin
Why we could stop worrying about gaming metrics if we stopped using journal articles for publishing scientific research / Elizabeth Wager
Making people and influencing friends : citation networks and the appearance of significance / Finn Brunton
Crack open the make-believe : counterfeit, publication ethics and the Global South / Marie-André Jacob
Fake archives : the search for openness in scholarly communication platforms / Alessandro Delfanti
Humor, hoaxes and software : the carnivalesque in the search for academic misconduct / Alexandra Lippman

LCCN:

2019010150

Control Number:

3012716

Other Authors:

Biagioli, Mario, 1946- editor
Lippman, Alexandra, editor

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