Citation cartels
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TRYING TO ESCAPE THE LONG TAIL OF THE UNIMPACTFUL
We once heard ‘when you invent a system, you invent the game that plays that system’. We remember this from our time in industry. No matter how you’d choose to compensate salespeople, they’d find the loopholes and exploit them. Academics are no different. Enjoy this Nature News piece “Brazilian citation scheme outed“. The tale takes place in Brazil, but we’ve heard about shenanigans in other countries as well. No matter how you choose to measure academic output, academics will game it.
