The darker side of quantitative academic performance metrics

Abstract

The economy of knowledge Scientific information can be considered an economic commodity.1 Authors produce papers as currency to acquire research employment, and, in turn, publishers sell these papers for profit.The appropriateness of monetising knowledge, and the sustainability of such business models, remains contentious.[2][3][4] But I do not wish to embroider on science economics per se.Instead I highlight here how current publishing behaviour has been influenced by economic incentives -behaviour that can now be predicted by basic economic models.5 Understanding such behavioural changes in science culture will become helpful to identify potentially unethical publishing practices.6,

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