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dc.contributor.editorBiagioli, Mario
dc.contributor.editorLippman, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-21T15:12:17Z
dc.date.available2022-02-21T15:12:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20220221_9780262356565_95
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78575
dc.description.abstractHow 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInfrastructures
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education::JNMN Universities
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNK Organization & management of education::JNKD Examinations & assessment
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general::GPJ Coding theory & cryptology
dc.subject.othergaming
dc.subject.othermetric
dc.subject.othercitation
dc.subject.othermisconduct
dc.subject.othermanipulation
dc.subject.otheracademic research
dc.subject.othergaming metrics
dc.subject.otherpeer review
dc.subject.otherimpact factor
dc.subject.otherfraud
dc.subject.otherfake
dc.subject.otherpredatory publishing
dc.subject.otherimpact assessment
dc.subject.othercitation index
dc.subject.otheropen access
dc.subject.otherjournal impact factor
dc.subject.otherJIF
dc.subject.otherscholarly communication
dc.subject.otherresearch evaluation
dc.subject.otherpublication pressure
dc.subject.otherpublish or perish
dc.subject.othereducation policy
dc.subject.otherspam
dc.subject.othercomputer-generated articles
dc.subject.otheraltmetric
dc.subject.otherdata quality
dc.subject.otherperformance indicators
dc.titleGaming the Metrics
dc.title.alternativeMisconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/11087.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedByae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d
oapen.relation.isbn9780262356565
oapen.relation.isbn9780262537933
oapen.imprintThe MIT Press
oapen.pages306
oapen.place.publicationCambridge


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