Gaming the Metrics - Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Infrastructures
Release date:	2020
First published:	2019
Editors:	Mario Biagioli (Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Director, Center for Sci) • Alexandra Lippman (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Contributors:	Alex Csiszar • Yves Gingras • Michael Power • Paul Wouters • James R. Griesemer • Barbara M. Kehm • Sarah de Rijcke • Tereza Stoeckelova
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-53793-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Coding theory & cryptology Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Examinations & assessment Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	0-262-53793-1
Barcode:	9780262537933

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