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Title Gaming the metrics : misconduct and manipulation in academic research / edited by Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman.

Publication Info. Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary 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. The chapters, written by both scholars and those in the trenches of academic publication, provide a map of academic fraud and misconduct today. They consider such topics as the shortcomings of metrics, the gaming of impact factors, the emergence of so-called predatory journals, the "salami slicing" of scientific findings, the rigging of global university rankings, and the creation of new watchdogs and forensic practices.
Local Note MIT Press Direct MIT Press Direct Open Access
Subject Scholarly publishing -- Corrupt practices.
Scholarly publishing.
Corruption.
Learning and scholarship -- Corrupt practices.
Learning and scholarship.
Research -- Corrupt practices.
Research -- Corrupt practices.
Research.
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Communication in learning and scholarship.
Added Author Biagioli, Mario, 1955- editor.
Lippman, Alexandra, editor.
ISBN 9780262356565 (electronic book)
0262356562 (electronic book)
9780262537933