Metrics: Do metrics matter?

Alison Abbott, David Cyranoski, Nicola Jones, Brendan Maher, Quirin Schiermeier and Richard Van Noorden

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7300, 860-862

Abstract: Many researchers believe that quantitative metrics determine who gets hired and who gets promoted at their institutions. With an exclusive poll and interviews, Nature probes to what extent metrics are really used that way.

Date: 2010
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