Gaming the Metrics Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research

• Eará dahkkit: Biagioli, Mario (Doaimmaheaddji), Lippman, Alexandra (Doaimmaheaddji)
• Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
• Giella: eaŋgalasgiella
• Almmustuhtton: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Ráidu: Infrastructures
• Fáttát: Universities; Examinations & assessment; Coding theory & cryptology; gaming; metric; citation; misconduct; manipulation; academic research; gaming metrics; peer review; impact factor; fraud; fake; predatory publishing; impact assessment; citation index; open access; journal impact factor; JIF; scholarly communication; research evaluation; publication pressure; publish or perish; education policy; spam; computer-generated articles; altmetric; data quality; performance indicators
• Liŋkkat: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 tha...