Gaming the metrics : misconduct and manipulation in academic research /
Gaming the metrics : misconduct and manipulation in academic research /
edited by Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Infrastructures .
- Infrastructures series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index
I: Beyond and Before Metrics -- 1: Gaming Metrics Before the Game: Citation and the Bureaucratic Virtuoso / 2: The Transformation of the Scientific Paper: From Knowledge to Accounting Unit /
3: Playing and Being Played by the Research Impact Game /
4: The Mismeasurement of Quality and Impact / 5: Taking Goodhart’s Law Meta: Gaming, Meta-Gaming, and Hacking Academic Performance Metrics /
Alex Csiszar -- Yves Gingras -- Michael Power -- Paul Wouters -- James Griesemer. II: Collaborative Manipulations -- 6: Global University Rankings: Impacts and Applications /
7: Predatory Publishing and the Imperative of International Productivity: Feeding Off and Feeding Up the Dominant /
8: Pressures to Publish: What Effects Do We See? /
9: Ghost-Managing and Gaming Pharmaceutical Knowledge /
Barbara M. Kehm -- Sarah de Rijcke, Tereza Stöckelová -- Daniele Fanelli -- Sergio Sismondo. III: Interventions: Notes from the Field --
10: Retraction Watch: What We’ve Learned and How Metrics Play a Role /
11: PubPeer: Scientific Assessment Without Metrics /
12: The Voinnet Affair: Testing the Norms of Scientific Image Management /
13: Crossing the Line: Pseudonyms and Snark in Post-Publication Peer Review /
14: Ike Antkare, His Publications, and Those of His Disciples /
15: Fake Scientists on Editorial Boards Can Significantly Enhance the Visibility of Junk Journals /
16: Altmetrics Gaming: Beast Within or Without? / 17: Why We Could Stop Worrying About Gaming Metrics If We Stopped Using Journal Articles for Publishing Scientific Research /
Ivan Oransky -- Boris Barbour, Brandon M. Stell -- Catherine Guaspare, Emmanuel Didier -- Paul S. Brookes -- Ike Antkare -- Burkhard Morgenstern -- Jennifer Lin -- Elizabeth Wager. IV: Mimicry for Parody or Profit -- 18: Making People and Influencing Friends: Citation Networks and the Appearance of Significance /
19: Crack Open the Make Believe: Counterfeit, Publication Ethics, and the Global South /
20: Fake Archives: The Search for Openness in Scholarly Communication Platforms /
21: Humor, Hoaxes, and Software in the Search for Academic Misconduct /
Finn Brunton -- Marie-Andrée Jacob -- Alessandro Delfanti -- Alexandra Lippman.
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
9780262356565
9780262356565 MIT Press
Scholarly publishing--Corrupt practices.
Learning and scholarship--Corrupt practices.
Research--Corrupt practices.
Communication in learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects.
Z286.S37 / G36 2020eb
070.5
Includes bibliographical references and index
I: Beyond and Before Metrics -- 1: Gaming Metrics Before the Game: Citation and the Bureaucratic Virtuoso / 2: The Transformation of the Scientific Paper: From Knowledge to Accounting Unit /
3: Playing and Being Played by the Research Impact Game /
4: The Mismeasurement of Quality and Impact / 5: Taking Goodhart’s Law Meta: Gaming, Meta-Gaming, and Hacking Academic Performance Metrics /
Alex Csiszar -- Yves Gingras -- Michael Power -- Paul Wouters -- James Griesemer. II: Collaborative Manipulations -- 6: Global University Rankings: Impacts and Applications /
7: Predatory Publishing and the Imperative of International Productivity: Feeding Off and Feeding Up the Dominant /
8: Pressures to Publish: What Effects Do We See? /
9: Ghost-Managing and Gaming Pharmaceutical Knowledge /
Barbara M. Kehm -- Sarah de Rijcke, Tereza Stöckelová -- Daniele Fanelli -- Sergio Sismondo. III: Interventions: Notes from the Field --
10: Retraction Watch: What We’ve Learned and How Metrics Play a Role /
11: PubPeer: Scientific Assessment Without Metrics /
12: The Voinnet Affair: Testing the Norms of Scientific Image Management /
13: Crossing the Line: Pseudonyms and Snark in Post-Publication Peer Review /
14: Ike Antkare, His Publications, and Those of His Disciples /
15: Fake Scientists on Editorial Boards Can Significantly Enhance the Visibility of Junk Journals /
16: Altmetrics Gaming: Beast Within or Without? / 17: Why We Could Stop Worrying About Gaming Metrics If We Stopped Using Journal Articles for Publishing Scientific Research /
Ivan Oransky -- Boris Barbour, Brandon M. Stell -- Catherine Guaspare, Emmanuel Didier -- Paul S. Brookes -- Ike Antkare -- Burkhard Morgenstern -- Jennifer Lin -- Elizabeth Wager. IV: Mimicry for Parody or Profit -- 18: Making People and Influencing Friends: Citation Networks and the Appearance of Significance /
19: Crack Open the Make Believe: Counterfeit, Publication Ethics, and the Global South /
20: Fake Archives: The Search for Openness in Scholarly Communication Platforms /
21: Humor, Hoaxes, and Software in the Search for Academic Misconduct /
Finn Brunton -- Marie-Andrée Jacob -- Alessandro Delfanti -- Alexandra Lippman.
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
9780262356565
9780262356565 MIT Press
Scholarly publishing--Corrupt practices.
Learning and scholarship--Corrupt practices.
Research--Corrupt practices.
Communication in learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects.
Z286.S37 / G36 2020eb
070.5